I urge the Obama administration to show the same commitment to securing our borders as President Calderon has personally shown to tracking cartels sharing intelligence & cooperating with the United States. While small steps have been taken the House Homeland Security Committee has failed to pass a single bill to secure the southwest border since Democrats took control of Congress three years ago. We must give our border sheriffs greater resources increase the number of Border Patrol agents expedite technology to complete the virtual fence and deploy the National Guard as a temporary stop-gap measure against illegal trafficking ... Continued complacency is not an option.
-- Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX) Ranking Member Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee on Mexican President Felipe Calderons visit to Washington
McCaul authored the 2006 report A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border exposing the rise of the drug cartels and the potential exploitation of our borders by terrorist groups. McCaul has visited Calderon in Mexico City and has confronted border violence since he was Chief of Counter-Terrorism in the US Attorneys Office in Texas.
