[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2328]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE THIRD FRONT

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, as the war against international 
terrorism continues in Iraq and Afghanistan, I bring you news from the 
third front, the U.S.-Mexico border, the real inconvenient truth. 
Recently, the U.S. consular office in the border town of Reynosa, 
Mexico, closed indefinitely. U.S. officials are barred from the area. 
The reason, because there are kidnappings and murders and Old West-
style shoot-outs in the streets, all on account of violent drug lords 
fighting over turf on the poorest border.
  The United States is not doing enough to stop the international drug 
cartels and the human smugglers. The greatest Nation on Earth is 
failing the American people by not adequately protecting the border. 
Drugs and people are going north, and money and guns are going south. 
The border has become a war zone that affects good people on both sides 
of the border. We're sitting on a powder keg that we ignore at our own 
peril. While we have troops overseas to protect the borders of foreign 
countries, we should be just as concerned about our own sovereign 
border.
  And that's just the way it is.

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