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\n<\/span><\/p>\nUS Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has hailed the dedication of a US immigration agent killed in Mexico last week in a speech at his funeral.<\/p>\n
“We know that no words or actions will fill the void left by Agent [Jaime] Zapata’s actions or repay the sacrifice he made… ,” Ms Napolitano said.<\/p>\n
Hundreds attended the funeral in Brownsville, Texas. Mr Zapata was shot dead in San Luis Potosi state.<\/p>\n
Another agent, Victor Avila, was wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n
US Congressman Michael McCaul has said the pair were attacked after members of the Zeta drug cartel forced their vehicle off the road on a highway between Mexico City and the northern city of Monterrey.<\/p>\n
‘Eradicate the scourge that took his life’<\/span><\/p>\n“He [Mr Zapata] knew that if the good do not fight for what is good the enemy is aggressive and will take our children,” Bishop Daniel Flores told mourners.<\/p>\n
Ms Napolitano and US Attorney General Eric Holder vowed to continue helping Mexico in its war against drug cartels.<\/p>\n
“We must and will eradicate the scourge that took his life,” Mr Holder said.<\/p>\n
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said it was working with Mexican authorities to investigate the shooting.<\/p>\n
Mr Zapata was assigned to the agency’s human smuggling and trafficking unit, and was recently on attachment to the ICE office within the US embassy in Mexico City.<\/p>\n
The murder was the highest-profile killing of a US official in Mexico since 1985, when an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent was kidnapped, tortured and killed while on assignment in Mexico.<\/p>\n
Mr Zapata was to be buried later on Tuesday in Brownsville – his hometown.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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