Regarding "It's personal and professional" (Page A1, Friday), in response to the recent slaying of ICE agent Jaime Zapata, Carl Pike, assistant special agent in charge of special operations for the Drug Enforcement Agency said: "We want all the cartels to realize this. It is the schoolyard mentality — a bully situation. The cartels have pushed — if you don't push back, you become the victim. U.S. law enforcement is not going to become the victim."
Mike Vigil, retired international operations director for the DEA, said if the cartels "are going to engage in this type of violence, there is going to be hell to pay."
It's a crying shame that it took losing one of their own to get our law enforcement establishment to do their jobs. How many tens of thousands of American civilians might be alive today if we had stopped the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants that brought them 25 years ago, when DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was tortured and murdered by the cartels?
I agree with Raul Benitez, the Mexican national security analyst who was quoted as saying: "These operations are fine, but they should be happening all the time. What I don't like is that they only launch these types of actions when they attack an American agent." So sadly true.
— Pete Smith, Cypress
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