Mexico's Congress Urges US to Facilitate Asylum for Victims of Violence Angela Kocherga - KENS 5
go to original January 17, 2014

Mexican citizens seeking asylum in the U.S because of violence back home are getting support from an unusual place: Mexico’s Congress.

Mexican lawmakers passed a resolution calling on the U.S. government to facilitate asylum cases.

“This is a game changer,” said Carlos Spector, an attorney at his El Paso office in a room packed with people he has represented in asylum cases.

 “This is the first time in the history of a country that we know of that a Congress has come out and said facilitate the asylum claims of our citizens because we are incapable of defending them,” said Spector.

 Senator Maria de Guadalupe Calderon Hinojosa introduced the resolution. She is the sister of former president Felipe Calderon.

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