Violence in Mexico spills across U.S. border
Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the U.S. as violence escalates in the Mexican drug wars and spills across the U.S. border, a top Department of Homeland Security official told the Associated Press.
In the last few months, the police officials have shown up at the U.S. border, fearing for their lives, according to Jayson Ahern, deputy commissioner at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
"It's almost like a military fight," Ahern said Tuesday. "I don't think that generally the American public has any sense of the level of violence that occurs on the border."
Read the story above here, and the latest post from La Plaza on the ongoing drug violence in Mexico against the police here.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City
