[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 118 (Thursday, July 17, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H6678]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        THE GUILTY GO FREE BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT HAS BLUNDERED

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, U.S. Border Agent Luis Aguilar, Jr. was on 
patrol in January on the Arizona border chasing two vehicles of 
suspected drug dealers. As the vehicles, a Hummer and a pickup, 
realized they had been discovered and fled back to the Mexican border, 
Agent Aguilar put road spikes in front of the vehicles. The Hummer, 
however, went off the road and ran over and killed Agent Aguilar.
  The driver, Jesus Navarro Montes, was quickly arrested by the Mexican 
government and held on unrelated drug charges. However, he was released 
6 months later because the U.S. Government never requested extradition 
proceedings.
  Members of Congress have asked the Justice Department what happened. 
We received a standard bureaucratic, nonsensical letter saying, ``we're 
not telling you.'' In other words, our Justice Department blundered by 
not requesting extradition, and now won't admit it.
  This is incompetence. Montes, meanwhile, is still probably running 
drugs into the United States.
  We owe it to all border agents and the family of Agent Aguilar to 
capture this killer. Maybe we should offer an old fashioned reward for 
his capture, and let our friends in Mexico do the job our government 
won't do.
  And that's just the way it is.

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