Asylum

A couple of days ago, the LA Times ran an interesting story about the difficulties confronting threatened Mexican cops who want to escape to the US via political asylum. George Grayson's take seems to get to the heart of the problem:

George Grayson, a professor of government at the College of William and Mary in Virginia and an expert on U.S.-Mexico relations, said that if immigration judges began to grant asylum liberally to people fleeing the cartels, "We'd have literally tens of thousands of police officers coming to the United States, not to mention some mayors, too."