Mexican Police Chief to Seek Asylum in U.S.

Last October, Marisol Valles Garcia, a 20-year-old college student from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, was hired as police chief of the small border town, Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero in Chihuahua; a town taken over by drug cartels and corruption. Marisol was studying criminology and was offered the job after two other job candidates stepped down when the town’s mayor and his son were killed. Now, after just five months on the job, Marisol has reportedly fled Praxedis for the United States. It is reported that after Marisol received death threats from a criminal group that wanted to force her to work with them, she fled to the U.S. last week with her husband and son to seek asylum.

Two months ago another Mexican border down was left without a police chief. Police chief and sole officer on the force in Guadalupe, Erika Gandara, was kidnapped. Erika’s fate is still unknown.

To read more on Marisol’s story and her quest for asylum, please visit http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41904784/ns/world_news-americas/?GT1=43001

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