In a word - nothing.
Allow me to digress for a moment and then put a bow on this at the end. One
of the most common facts that must be shown in a deportation defense or waiver
of some ground of inadmissibility is hardship. The level of hardship varies
based on the type of case, from your everyday run of the mill hardship to your
heightened exceptional and extremely unusual hardship. The hardship is usually
to your qualifying relative. The U.S. government does not care about the affect
your deportation would have on you, but supposedly cares about how it will affect
your qualifying relative or relatives. One of the most common ways that
hardship is shown is by demonstrating that the current conditions in the
country to which you would be removed are so horrible that it would be a hardship
for your qualifying relative to go and live there with you.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past
decade you know there is a turf war between rival
cartels in Mexico for control of the lucrative “plazas,” or trafficking
corridors on the U.S. border. Joaquin Guzman Loera, AKA – El Chapo, controls
one of these lucrative corridors as the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, arguably
the most powerful in Mexico. Does his recent arrest
mean the war is over and that Mexico is now a safe place and we can start
deporting people there without a second thought? (Oh wait we’re already doing
that!)
Chapo’s arrest means nothing, despite what some enterprising
ICE attorney or removal officer will ultimately try and say it means – that the
drug war in Mexico is over. Whether El Chapo continues
to run his empire from prison (as he did until his “escape”
in 2001), or some other individual takes over, it really doesn’t alter the
landscape in Mexico. The cartels will still fight over the lucrative plazas and
people will continue to die. Mexico will still remain in large part a dangerous
place, especially for those arriving after a recent deportation.
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