[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18687]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         POLICE CHIEF HERMILA GARCIA IN MEOQUI, MEXICO MURDERED

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Chief of Police Hermila Garcia is the 
latest victim in the land of lawless days in Mexico. Chief Garcia was 
at her job only 51 days when she was brutally murdered by drug cartel 
assassins. In a brazen ambush, they shot Chief Garcia seven times when 
she was headed off to work.
  So many police chiefs have been murdered in Mexico that no one wants 
the job. Trained officers are refusing promotions, leaving untrained 
citizens to run the police department. In the border town of El Vergel, 
two housewives are the top cops in town. In Chihuahua, the new police 
chief is a 20-year-old student.
  There is a border war going on, and the violence will only get worse 
on both sides of the line of lawlessness. The rule of law is being 
stolen by the hand of the gun. We must help our neighbors in Mexico and 
also secure our border with armed National Guard troops. Otherwise, 
this wind brewing from the south will bring America the whirlwind.
  And that's just the way it is.

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