Texas lawmakers held a hearing yesterday in the border town of McAllen to get a grip on the spillover violence from the Mexican drug cartels, and the news isn't good as reported by Christopher Sherman for The Associated Press:
Murders and kidnappings linked to the drug trade have been reported in some border communities in Texas, while some agencies have been stretched by routine drug smuggling, officials said during a legislative hearing in McAllen. * * * Steve McCraw, executive director of the Department of Public Safety, said . . . "Mexican cartel-related activity impacts every region in Texas." * * * [T]he FBI's chief in McAllen, John Johnson, said kidnapping cases in the area spiked in 2009, with 42 victims in 37 cases. Sixteen of those victims are still missing while the rest were safely returned, he said. There are many kidnappings that are never reported. Even in the known cases, the FBI has only been able to collect DNA samples for 23 victims, he said. "Some of these victims, no one is lining up to or knocking on the door to find them," he said.
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