On the recordMay 23, 2016
I express my appreciation for being a member of the Victims' Right Caucus because it is bipartisan. I should say it is multicommunities. All different people. Let me thank the gentleman for mentioning Mayor Turner. This is an exciting effort. If you don't take notice, you are not going to be able to solve the problem. And that is what the city is doing. It is taking notice and putting in infrastructure for being helpful. Let me close by simply saying that, as Judge Poe knows, in the last couple of days of Houston we have been mourning the killing of an 11- year-old child on his way home from school. We have not determined who it is, but all I can say to you is that even our children are vulnerable, whether by a heinous individual that maybe was trying to pick the child up--we don't know--but the child is now deceased. My sympathies to his family, the Flores family in my congressional district. All I can say is that it is our responsibility to protect these children and not for little Josue to have died in vain in the tragic way that he lost his life. Again, I thank the gentleman for allowing me to offer sympathy to his family and his community and say that we are doing the right thing by trying to protect those who are most vulnerable.
