ICE director visits Agent Jaime Zapata's family

July 09, 2011 10:10 PM

Valley Freedom Newspapers



ICE Director John Morton applauded Mexican authorities’ arrest of the alleged mastermind behind the attack that killed Special Agent Jaime Zapata in February but offered few other details in his first public acknowledgment of the Zeta kingpin’s July 3 capture.

Morton and other U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials paid an unannounced visit to Brownsville late Friday evening at Zapata’s childhood home, visiting with the slain agent’s parents for less than an hour before departing the Rio Grande Valley.

Mexican authorities described Jesus Enrique “El Mamitoâ€