Asylum Denied:

[JonLP24]

Unlike Refugees from Other Troubled Countries, Only a Fraction of Mexicans Seeking U.S. Asylum Are Accepted -- No Matter Their Wounds or Stories
(Headline was too big to fit in the subject line so there is the rest of it)

As evening falls on southern Mexico, Sarah (not her real name) is shopping at a fruit market a block from her house. It is Friday, and her father, an investigator for the State Judicial Police, is home relaxing on his night off. Wearing blue jeans and an unbuttoned shirt, he is sweeping his front porch, waiting for his daughter to return and make dinner.

Sarah pays for the food just as a rush of black SUVs with no license plates speed past her along the road. She recognizes them instantly as they pull up to her home in a cloud of dust. Men in dark masks with AK-47s jump out and run toward Sarah's front door. Two of them are wearing police patches. One of them is her father's commander.

"They're taking your dad! They're taking your dad!" shouts a little girl in the store. Sarah tries to run, but her legs won't churn fast enough. Everything is in slow motion. She watches the gunmen drag her father out onto the street while he screams, "Show me the arrest warrant! Don't take me!" Sarah sees the men punch her mother and shoot her father in the leg before hauling him into a truck and driving away.

By the time Sarah gets home, all that is left of her father is the bloodstained pavement. He has not been seen since.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2010-08-26/news/asylum-unlike-refugees-from-other-troubled-countries-only-a-fraction-of-mexicans-seeking-u-s-asylum-are-accepted-no-matter-their-wounds-or-stories

It is a long article so I recommend going straight to the link as I could only post 4 paragraphs which is the first 4 of the story and doesn't really tell you much
This article is part of Amongst US VVM Series which is a series of articles with the goal to tell the story of the Hispanics among us and the struggles they face.

The last article I posted that was part of the VVM series.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x553423