John Boehner (R-Ohio) exaggerating the violence at the Mexican frontier

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/15...nt-than-border

A border-state Democrat on Monday accused House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) of exaggerating the violence at the Mexican frontier in order to kill immigration-reform efforts.

Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) said America's border towns are among the safest in the country, and noted that violent crime in Ohio is far worse than that in the largest cities abutting Mexico. He called on Boehner to fix his home-state problems before criticizing those along the southern border.

"Speaker Boehner should focus on controlling the level of violence in his own state before tarnishing the image of border communities that remain among the safest places to live in America," Reyes, who represents Texas' western-most border district, said in a statement.

The comment comes amid an escalation of violent crime in Mexico, fueled largely by the powerful cartels catering to America's substantial appetite for illegal drugs. The drug battles have killed more than 30,000 Mexicans since 2006. Some of the crime has spilled into the U.S., prompting many lawmakers on Capitol Hill to urge the White House to take additional steps to seal the border.

President Obama is scheduled to speak Tuesday on immigration reform in El Paso, Texas, which sits in Reyes’ district.

Boehner's office last week fired a warning shot on the thorny topic, saying Republicans will oppose any efforts to reform the nation's immigration laws before the violence at the border declines.

“Our first priority must be ending the violence at the border," Boehner spokesman Michael Steel told Roll Call last Tuesday. "We really can’t deal with other issues until it is secure."

Yet Reyes noted that the crime rate in Ohio cities is much higher than that in border towns.
Dayton, Ohio, for instance, suffered 39 homicides in 2009 and another 35 in 2010 – more than the number in the Texas-border cities of El Paso, Laredo, Brownsville and McAllen combined, Reyes said, citing local law enforcement statistics.

"As his office asserts that Congress cannot consider reforming our broken immigration system until border violence is under control, the fact remains that the six largest cities in Ohio all have higher rates of violence and crime than every major city along the U.S.-Mexico border," Reyes said.
The Texas Democrat said he's hopeful that Obama's high-profile address "will help expose Republicans' distorted rhetoric on border violence, and renew the push for much-needed reforms to our immigration system that are long overdue."
Boehner's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.

Again the lady in charge of the damn border NAPOLITANO has been saying the border is safe for a long time now. Instigating republicans.

Janet Napolitano stand up dont fear these republicans dont let them tell you how to do your job.

The GOP don't really care about facts!

i dont understand why the rebupes are so anti immigration reform. immigration reform always been bipartisan. only if one repubes candidate become pro immigration reform this so called president obama has no chance of getting reelected. problem freakin solved. repubes very well know the freakin border are much much safer secured than it was. they are just being an ass right now.

I am quite confident that the tea party will not last long. They are a bunch of air heads. Just remember how they used to say that they would reference the constitution for every law they drafted. What ever happened to that?Also the ridiculous over the tv swearing of two of the idiots elected who illegally voted for a measure without being members. No wonder why the United States is in decline.

The Tea Party are only a bunch of POLITICIANS who want votes, and don't care about who or what they have to step on.

The tea party™ is only there so it looks like people are voting for the lesser of two evils. Mexico is pretty brutal though. I'd wager that it's more dangerous than Ohio because poverty makes people into fiends but Boner is just using the facts for fear mongering and trolling because the violance at the border will never be stopped.

The USA should just build a damn moat around itself and it should also bring back the factories to create those damn jobs that patriots are dying for. Let's see those crazy airhead dumb asses work for cheap. Oh.. what? wait... do you smell that? burrrn!

^u said boner

Yeah. that freakin Boner always looks like he's gonna cry. I'm sick of seeing his whiny leathery red face and of hearing his demented vitriol.

What a nasty rotten old Boner.