Honorable Eliot L. Engel
United States Representative, New York, Democrat
Representative Engel, of the Seventeenth District of New York, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988. He serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and chairs its Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. The following is excerpted from Representative Engel’s statement during a June 19, 2009, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere hearing on U.S. efforts to combat arms trafficking to Mexico. The availability of firearms illegally flowing from the United States into Mexico has armed and emboldened a dangerous criminal element in Mexico, and it has made the brutal work of the drug cartels…
