[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3516]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            BORDER VIOLENCE

  (Mrs. KIRKPATRICK of Arizona asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK of Arizona. Madam Speaker, on Saturday, three people 
connected to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez were brutally murdered 
by drug cartels in front of their young children.
  What more must happen to focus our attention on the serious threat 
along 2,000 miles of our southern border? For the safety of Americans 
living in border States and traveling or working in Mexico, we must 
take this danger seriously and crack down on the cartels. U.S. citizens 
are increasingly at risk of being innocent victims of this brutal 
violence, but the administration budget would cut resources intended to 
crack down on cartels and to secure our border.
  I call on the White House to provide necessary support for law 
enforcement, at all levels, to track down these criminals and their 
networks. This is a fight we cannot lose. It is too close to home. My 
thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their 
lives in these attacks.

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