Congressman Ted Poe (TX-02) offered an amendment to H.R. 6028, the Merida Initiative to Combat Illicit Narcotics and Reduce Organized Crime Authorization Act of 2008, to reduce funding to Mexico by half and re-direct that funding to state and local law enforcement along the United States border.

“Our border sheriffs are desperately understaffed and outgunned,” said Poe. “It makes no sense to me to send over a billion dollars of US ta... more >>