I read with interested a recent News York Times report...I quote the relevant portion:

"Mr. Perez said the congressman’s office often received calls from victims’ relatives, many of them United States citizens, about crimes in Mexico. And Ms. Zamarripa said ICE offered a supporting role to the Mexican authorities in kidnapping cases “every day.”

“Protecting the homeland does not start and end at the border,” she said. “We’re very concerned that the violence in Juárez does not spill over.”

But some thought the quick resolution of the case notable.

“What is striking is how rapidly it was solved,” said Kent Paterson, who runs a border blog operated by New Mexico State University and says there are scores of unresolved cases of kidnapping of United States citizens along the border. “If you have money, clout and political connections, you can move things.”

Jaime Hervella, co-founder of the International Association of Relatives and Friends of Disappeared Persons, based in El Paso, said of Mr. Reyes: “We had to go through extremes to get an appointment to see him, only after pressure in the media was too much. We had a 40-minute meeting, and it was like talking to my closet. Nothing came about.”

Mr. Perez said it was unfair to compare a majority of cases to Ms. Posselt’s abduction, because she had been in imminent danger.

“In other cases,” he said, “our office was notified months and in some cases years after the incident took place.”

Kidnappings in Ciudad Juárez have escalated in recent months. A Mexican federal antikidnapping team arrived there this week to investigate abductions of businesspeople."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/us/28kidnap.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=us&adxnnlx=1214645813-b8boHBenApWLFMsNXzirfg

My interpretation of what U.S. Rep. Sylvestre Reyes and ICE position is as follow:  That they will help any victim of a recent and active crime of violence, i.e. kidnapping whether the victim lives either in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico or in the El Paso, TX area, regardless of the victim's citizenship: Mexican or American, and/or whether the victim is an illegal alien immigrant whether the illegal alien is in Mexico or in the USA.  Remember, Mexico also has illegal aliens from other underdevloped countries.

Now, my question is:  under what authority is ICE now involved in "assisting the Mexican police" in investigating Mexican nationals or any other nationality victims in kidnapping cases of crimes that occurred in Mexico?  Why is US Rep. Sylvestre's office involved in the business affairs of other countries and allowing the spending of U.S. tax payer's monies in this so called "mutual cooperation" involving crimes of violence against Mexican citizens which took place in Mexico?  This is what I understand after I read the comments of Mr. Perez and the ICE's spokesperson.  (I smell a rotten deal)  Wonder what the FBI is thinking now about ICE taking over on their (FBI's) jurisdiction involving federal kidnapping cases.  Or may be this is just an "after the fact" Culpa Mia bogus explanation as to why ICE got involved in  the release of U.S. Rep. Reyes' "very distant relative," and why U.S. Rep. Reyes received "special treatment" by ICE. 

For now, all you folk U.S. citizens (who live in Us. Rep. Reyes' District) whose relatives have been kidnapped in Juarez, don't wait and immediately contact the Office of U.S. Rep. Sylvestre Reyes and ICE and asked them to help you and your family for the release of your kidnapped relative.  I wish you good luck