On the American side of the border. in fiscal year 2007. on a typical day. 154. Pt. 11 July 21. 2008 U.S. Customs and Border Protection confiscated 2.250 pounds of narcotics in 69 seizures at ports of entry and 5.138 pounds of narcotics in 29 seizures between ports of entry and conducted 70 criminal arrests. While new funding for the Merida Initiative in the Supplemental Appropriations bill will help the Mexican government attack the problem. the funding is currently unbalanced. as it does not address the U.S. side of the border and the battle that our hometown law enforcement officials are waging against the exact same threat. We should not fail to recognize that the narcoterrorists in Mexico have grown increasingly violent. killing 300 policemen last year and the head of the Mexican federal police force in May. However. the violence is not confined to Mexico. In 2007. a councilman from Acufia was killed on U.S. soil in Del Rio. TX. and seven border patrol agents were killed on the frontlines. Two agents have been killed so far this year. The total number of assaults against officers has Increased from 335 in 2001 to 987 in 2007.
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