[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 74 (Tuesday, May 6, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H3059]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 HOUSTON POLICE OFFICER RODNEY JOHNSON

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, Houston Police Officer Rodney Johnson was the 
best of the best, but he was killed by the worst of the worst.
  An illegal outlaw from Mexico, Juan Leonardo Quintero-Perez, shot 
Officer Johnson four times in the back of the head after a routine 
traffic stop. Officer Johnson would still be alive today, enjoying time 
with his five children and his wife, Joslyn, a fellow Houston police 
officer, if our border was protected.
  This lawless trespasser had already been deported for indecency with 
a child in 1998, but he sneaked across the border again to continue his 
crime spree. After coming to Houston, Quintero finally confessed to 
murdering one of Houston's finest.
  Today, Quintero is on trial for capital murder in Houston, but the 
Mexican government, rather than pay restitution to the Johnson family, 
is paying for the battery of defense lawyers representing this cold-
blooded cop killer.
  Mexico is meddling in the U.S. court system, but Juan Quintero cannot 
miss his judgment day and his day with his Maker, because justice is 
what we do in America, even if the Mexican government doesn't like it.
  And that's just the way it is.

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