Mexican woman police chief seeks US asylum

[The Northerner]

WASHINGTON — A 20-year old woman police chief who fled her northern Mexican border town after receiving death threats could soon have her asylum claim heard by a US judge, an immigration official told AFP on Tuesday.

An official with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) told AFP that Marisol Valles Garcia is in the United States after fleeing her post as the top law enforcement official in the Mexican town of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero in northern Chihuahua state.

A college student and mother, Valles, who officials said already has filed her asylum petition, was fired over the weekend by local officials for abandoning her job.

Relatives have said that the young woman received death threats from a criminal group that wanted to force her to work for them.

In October, Valles took over as police chief of the town of 10,000 inhabitants, which is located a short distance from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city.

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[Suich]

1. I'm glad she's safe!

Last I heard, she was missing.

[SoCalDem]

2. Me too. I thought she had been kidnapped & killed.. n.t

[virgogal]

3. A college student=mother=police chief. Wow ,that's multi-tasking.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. A 20 year-old female police chief?

Now there's something you don't see every day.

[jp11]

5. Not surprising she pretty much knew what she was getting into when

the other candidates all dropped out because fear of the criminals, murder of the former chief(beheaded) and the assassination of the previous mayor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/21/mexico-student-police-chief-drug-cartel