[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 16, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H950]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      ANOTHER CASUALTY OF MURDER IN MEXICO, ICE AGENT JAIME ZAPATA

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, David Hartley, Lesley Enriquez, Arthur 
Redelfs, Nancy Davis, Carlos Mario Gonzalez Bermudez, Juan Carlos 
Echeverri, and now ICE agent Jaime Zapata. These are all American 
victims of the border war, the third front, all murdered in Mexico.
  Yesterday, ICE agent Jaime Zapata was ambushed and murdered and 
another agent was wounded when they were gunned down at a fake 
``checkpoint'' between Mexico City and Monterrey. None of the assassins 
or perpetrators of any of these homicides have ever been captured. I 
suspect, based upon Mexico's lax enforcement of the rule of law, no one 
will ever be held accountable.
  Agent Zapata's murder will be news for a few days, then the country 
will move on to other matters. But the border war continues against the 
vicious drug cartels and it is time we acknowledge that this war is not 
going away. The drug bandits have operational control of portions of 
the southern border. Drugs and people are smuggled north. Money and 
guns are smuggled south.
  We should help our neighbors restore the rule of law in Mexico and 
hold the lawless accountable for murdering Mexicans and Americans. 
Otherwise, there will be more murders like the one against Agent 
Zapata.
  And that's just the way it is.

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