Given this intensified violence--more than 35,000 killings in the past 5 years since President Calderon declared this war and the increase in spillover crime into the United States--I believe it is time for the United States to take decisive steps to end this war just south of our border.
McCaul calls for decisive U.S. action against drug cartel violence affecting America.
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