[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 39 (Wednesday, March 17, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1521]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     DEATH OF U.S. CONSULATE STAFF

  (Ms. CHU asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, last weekend a tragedy sent shock waves through 
the U.S. and Mexico when three U.S. consulate employees and their 
family were brutally murdered in Mexico by the drug cartels. They were 
all headed home from a birthday party when gunmen opened fire on the 
car of Lesley Enriquez, an employee of the U.S. consulate and her 
husband. Their 7-month-old infant, crying in the back seat, was 
miraculously unharmed. Minutes later, Jorge Salcido, husband of a 
consulate employee, was shot to death. His two young children suffered 
serious injuries in the back seat of the car.
  This is the latest in the string of attacks on innocent American and 
Mexican citizens, including Bobby Salcedo, an elected official and 
rising star from my district in El Monte, California, who was recently 
murdered in a shocking execution in Durango, Mexico.
  The murderers of these employees and of Bobby Salcedo must be brought 
to justice and the U.S. must renew and increase efforts to help Mexico 
bring an end to the terror of the drug cartels. This violence must be 
stopped.

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