[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 124 (Wednesday, September 15, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H6688]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            CARTEL EXTORTION

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, violence continues to seep across the 
Mexican border. Narco-terrorists continue to take shots at our Border 
Patrol from across the Rio Grande River. Drugs and human trafficking 
continue as our outmanned, out-financed and outgunned law enforcement 
agents continue to struggle against this violence.
  But how is this for a new wrinkle in the drug cartel threat? Law 
enforcement officials in Texas indicate that the drug cartels may have 
opened up a protection racket on the American side of the border. 
Reports show that Hispanics living on the American side are now paying 
protection money to the drug cartels. These Mexican cartels are 
threatening harm to their relatives on the Mexican side of the border. 
If they have relatives in Mexico, pay up or they will be hurt, or 
worse.
  The narco-terrorist extortion racket is just another example of crime 
coming into America from across the border. People who say that 
organized crime threats crippling Mexico don't affect Americans are 
living in Never Neverland.
  And that's just the way it is.

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