On the recordFebruary 15, 2011
I bring you news from the war on our third front, the southern border with Mexico. Last Saturday, two American teenagers were brutally shot and killed in Mexico in the Mexican border town of Juarez, Mexico. That is right across the Rio Grande River from El Paso, Texas. On Thursday, drug cartels gunned down eight people at a bar in Juarez. On Sunday, Homero Salcido, the head of security and intelligence for the state of Nuevo Leon in Mexico, was shot in the head and his car was set ablaze. Nuevo Leon is close to the U.S. border and once was considered one of the safest towns in all of Mexico. These murders are evidence that the narcoterrorists are continuing to expand their control with our neighbors to the south in Mexico. There are portions of Mexico that are under the control of the drug bandits, and honest law enforcement is nonexistent. However, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has said that the situation on the border has been 'mischaracterized' by lawmakers for political reasons. Well, the same can be said of Homeland Security Director Napolitano. She mischaracterizes the border region, claiming it is safe. This is either for political reasons or because she refuses to admit the Federal Government is unwilling or incapable of securing the border. More than 34,000 people have been murdered in our neighboring country of Mexico since the drug cartels began their reign of terror in 2006.
