Hey, here is one way to get more voter support

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I can only read that as "yes, we should be treating them as refugees", is that correct?

No. What I was saying was that the people in Mexico have lived with their corrupt police officials forever. What is different is the press coverage. You are I are cloistered in our idyllic and mostly peaceful communities, and rarely see or hear about the ugliness of our world. A good many areas of our world are filled with potential refugees, if that is defined as living in an area rife with a violent crime per capita rate like Juarez. The innocent victims are not being persecuted, but are usually either caught in the cross fire, or working against the status quo to clean up the corruption.

At the end of the day, the congress does seem too lazy/ignorant/corrupt to do a damned thing about it though, which at the end of the day, applies to most of the problems that the US is currently facing.

Again, no, I wouldn't call it lazy, or ignorant, or corrupt -- at least in the US -- I don't know enough about Mexican national politics to comment on them.

Our politicians are just manipulative, self-serving, and/or craven. If you side against illegal immigrants you risk losing 9.7 million registered Latino voters. Or, do you side with tougher immigration policy to attract the majority opinion? It is easy to be against crime, or illegal drug use. It's not that simple to be against an opportunity for hard working family man Mr. Lopez and his family seeking to leave their hard life in Oaxaca. Now, if Raul Castro became the supreme dictator of the Communist States of Mexico, then you'd have asylum seekers and Republicans working tirelessly to drain Mexico of its repressed workers, and Democrats deporting them back to their socialist nirvana.