Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Mr. President: Over a year ago I wrote you warning of the increasing threat of cartel-related violence spilling across our border with Mexico. At the time gunfire from cartels in Juarez had crossed over the border into El Paso. Fortunately for El Pasoans those bullets struck only buildings rather than bodies.
Since the incident in El Paso the threat from the cartels has only grown and now the bullets have struck Americans. Just last weekend in a deadly shootout with cartel operatives a deputy sheriff in Hidalgo County Texas was shot three times. Thankfully the officer survived but the Hidalgo County Sheriff confirmed that the shooting spilled over from ongoing drug wars involving the Gulf Cartel in Mexico.
... last weeks gun battle in Hidalgo County was not an isolated incident."
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in letter to President Obama
