[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11874]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  ANOTHER AMERICAN MURDERED IN MEXICO

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Mexican bandits have killed yet 
another American. The reason: His family couldn't come up with the 
$10,000 ransom.
  Jorge Dieppa was a court translator for the Federal court in El Paso, 
Texas. He also was a lecturer at UTEP. Dieppa had gone to Juarez to get 
his car fixed, but he was kidnapped on July 6. When his relatives 
didn't pay the ransom, he was murdered. He was found bound with duct 
tape after being stabbed repeatedly.
  Juarez is the border city of death. Thousands of Mexicans have been 
murdered there as well as several Americans. Rogue bandits and drug 
cartels rule the city. They rein terror on people through violence, 
racketeering, extortion, robbery, kidnapping, and drug deals.
  The violence in ``death city'' is not the only border town with an 
atmosphere of outlawry. Other border towns such as Nuevo Laredo and 
Matamoros are dangerous for honest persons. Violence in Mexico affects 
the U.S. border towns with the cross-border crime, including reports of 
Americans with Spanish surnames being kidnapped and held for ransom.
  Failure to realize that crime in ``death city'' and other Mexican 
border towns is real and expanding is to live like Alice in Wonderland.
  And that's just the way it is.

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