It also encourages law enforcement in the United States to seek closer cooperation with Mexican law enforcement authorities to solve these crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. Mr. Speaker. the border with Mexico can be a violent place. With drug traffickers. migrant smugglers. and other violent malefactors operating along the border. young women who live and work in the many border communities often fall prey to these violent criminals. Over the past 12 years. more than 400 murders and disappearances of women have been committed in the cities of Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua City. Fiftyfive women have been killed in Juarez and Chihuahua City since 2004 alone.