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Mr. Speaker, last week I got to go down to the west Texas town of El Paso, that town that Marty Robbins sang that famous ballad about. It was one of my several trips to the Texas/Mexico border since I’ve been in Congress, now almost a dozen times down along the Rio Grande River.
The Texas border with Mexico, the river border, is 1,248 miles long. That doesn’t mean much, but it’s the same distance from New York City to Kansas City. And I spent last week in two of those counties, the furthest west county, El Paso County, and the second county to the east, Hudspeth County.
I met with the Sheriff’s Department in El Paso County, and Sheriff Leo Samaniego and his chief deputy, Jimmy Apodaca and Public Information Officer Rick Clancy, all El Paso natives, took me around the area of El Paso city and the County of El Paso. I’d like to describe the scene that I saw there.
Posted by tyne at September 19, 2007