[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 124 (Thursday, September 17, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1750]
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                      GUNMEN IN EL SAUZAL, MEXICO

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                            HON. RON PACKARD

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 17, 1998

  Mr. PACKARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to inform the House that 19 
men, women and children were brutally murdered early this morning in El 
Sauzal, Mexico. This small town, a suburb of Ensenada, is just an hour 
south of the Mexican border, and not far from my home district in 
Southern California.
  According to news reports, some twenty people living in three 
neighborhood homes were jerked from their beds and lined up against a 
wall shortly after 4 a.m. this morning. They were then brutally gunned 
down execution style, murdered in cold blood.
  Mr. Speaker, I hope the Mexican authorities find these killers and 
put an end to the violence which has plagued this region in years past. 
We cannot afford an increase in drug and gang-related violence along 
our southern border. I urge my fellow southern California colleagues to 
join me in urging that we continue to support our border patrol 
officers.

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