[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 7 (Thursday, January 21, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H269-H270]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             BOBBY SALCEDO

  (Ms. CHU asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, today I am introducing a resolution decrying 
the shocking violence of the Mexican drug cartels, and I am urging the 
Mexican Government to bring to justice those responsible for the 
killing of Bobby Salcedo and of countless innocent bystanders.
  This past New Year's Eve, Bobby Salcedo, a young elected official and 
rising star from my district in El Monte, California, was brutally 
executed in Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico. Despite having no 
connection to the Mexican drug trade, Mr. Salcedo's death is part of a 
recent and pervasive surge in violence against innocent bystanders. 
Bobby's death reminds us that the violence of the Mexican drug cartels 
is not in some faraway land but that it affects us here in the United 
States as well.
  This violence must be stopped. Bobby's killers must be brought to 
justice. That is why I encourage my colleagues to support this 
resolution in urging the United States and Mexico to bring an

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end to the gruesome violence of the Mexican drug cartels.

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