C 2011 The Associated Press
May 11, 2011, 2:31AM
WASHINGTON - Drug cartel violence along the Texas-Mexico border is the focus
of a U.S. House subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill.
Three Texas law enforcement officials Wednesday were invited to the homeland
security hearing. U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul of Austin, who will chair the
hearing, says data on spillover crime and violence is "deceiving and
underreported."
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McGraw is scheduled to
testify. So is McAllen police Chief Victor Rodriguez and Zapata County
Sheriff Sigfedo Gonzales.
Zapata County is where an American tourist raced to shore last year after
she said Mexican pirates ambushed she and her husband on Falcon Lake. Her
husband's body wasn't found.
Officials from the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland
Security and Arizona's attorney general office are also set to testify.
source: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7559652.html
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