US becoming more receptive to Mexican asylum petitions

Washington, D.C. (Notimex) – The number of Mexican petitions for political (sic) asylum approved by US immigration authorities have increased by more than 300 percent in the past three years, reported National Public Radio. Despite this, the number of those granted asylum represents hardly a fraction of the requests, which have been increasing in recent years. The report from the radio chain indicated that in recent years, US immigration authorities have become more receptive to those cases which have been able to demonstrate fear of persecution by drug cartels.

The phenomenon gained relevance in recent days after the announcement that the US granted asylum to Jorge Luis Aguirre, editor of the periodical La Polaka in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, and who, two years ago, received death threats. Carlos Spector, an immigration lawyer in El Paso, Texas, considers Aguirre’s case good news. “We were all waiting for the first case because there have been so many applications presented,â€