H.R.ANo.A1801

RESOLUTION

1 WHEREAS, Words cannot express the sorrow felt at the loss of

2 United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent

3 Jaime Jorge Zapata, who was killed on February 15, 2011, at the age

4 of 32; and

5 WHEREAS, Born on May 7, 1978, in Brownsville to Amador

6 Zapata, Jr., and Mary Zapata-Munoz, Jaime Zapata graduated from The

7 University of at Brownsville in 2005 with a degree in criminal

8 justice; he joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement the

9 following year; and

10 WHEREAS, Agent Zapata was assigned to the Office of the

11 Deputy Special Agent in Charge in Laredo, and served on the Human

12 Smuggling and Trafficking Unit as well as the Border Enforcement

13 Security Task Force; he recently was detailed to ICE ’s attache

14 office at the U.S. Embassy in City; and

15 WHEREAS, A kind and generous individual who enjoyed hunting

16 and fishing with his many friends and who cherished his fiancee,

17 Stacye Joyner, Agent Zapata was always ready to help those in need;

18 he was known for his dedication to duty and to the job he loved; and

19 WHEREAS, More than 1,000 mourners gathered at Agent Zapata ’s

20 funeral, including Victor Avila, who survived the attack that

21 killed his colleague; speaking at the funeral were Homeland

22 Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, U.S. Attorney General Eric

23 Holder, and ICE Director John Morton; and

24 WHEREAS, Jaime Zapata was a courageous agent who gave his

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1 life in the line of duty; his heroism remains vivid in the hearts of

2 those who cared for him and in the minds of those who remember the

3 tragic events of that fateful day; now, therefore, be it

4 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas

5 Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Immigration and

6 Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Jorge Zapata and extend

7 sincere condolences to the members of his family: to his parents,

8 Amador Zapata, Jr., and Mary Zapata-Munoz; to his fiancee, Stacye

9 Joyner; to his brothers, Amador Zapata III and his wife, Claudia,

10 Carlos Ismael Zapata and his wife, Claudia, Jose Israel Zapata and

11 his wife, Yazmina, and Erick William Zapata; to his aunts and

12 uncles, Maria Adelina Guerra and her husband, Raul, Jorge Luis

13 Zapata and his wife, Rosa, Alma Diana Canales and her husband,

14 Romeo, Alfredo Munoz and his wife, Rosalinda, Felix Munoz and his

15 wife, Diana, Norberto Munoz and his wife, Sara, Jose Joaquin Munoz

16 and his wife, Rachel, Ralph R. Munoz and his wife, Belinda, and

17 Pablo Munoz and his wife, Elda; and to his other relatives and many

18 friends; and, be it further

19 RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be

20 prepared for his family and that when the Texas House of

21 Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Jaime Jorge

22 Zapata.

Gonzales of Hidalgo

2 H.R.ANo.A1801 AAA Straus Gonzales of Williamson Morrison Aliseda Gonzalez Munoz, Jr. Allen Gooden Murphy Alonzo Guillen Naishtat Alvarado Gutierrez Nash Anchia Hamilton Oliveira Anderson of Hancock Orr Anderson of McLennan Hardcastle Otto Aycock Harless Parker Beck Harper-Brown Patrick Berman Hartnett Paxton Bohac Hernandez Luna Pena Bonnen Hilderbran Perry Branch Hochberg Phillips Brown Hopson Pickett Burkett Howard of Fort Bend Pitts Burnam Howard of Travis Price Button Huberty Quintanilla Cain Hughes Raymond Callegari Hunter Reynolds Carter Isaac Riddle Castro Jackson Ritter Chisum Johnson Rodriguez Christian Keffer Schwertner Coleman King of Parker Scott Cook King of Taylor Sheets Craddick King of Zavala Sheffield Creighton Kleinschmidt Shelton Crownover Kolkhorst Simpson Darby Kuempel Smith of Harris Davis of Dallas Landtroop Smith of Tarrant J. Davis of Harris Larson Smithee S. Davis of Harris Laubenberg Solomons Deshotel Lavender Strama Driver Legler Taylor of Collin Dukes Lewis Taylor of Galveston Dutton Lozano Thompson Eiland Lucio III Torres Eissler Lyne Truitt Elkins Madden Turner Farias Mallory Caraway Veasey Farrar Margo Villarreal Fletcher Marquez Vo Flynn Martinez Walle Frullo Martinez Fischer Weber Gallego McClendon White Garza Menendez Woolley Geren Miles Workman Giddings Miller of Comal Zedler Gonzales of Hidalgo Miller of Erath Zerwas

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Speaker of the HouseAAAAA

I certify that H.R. No. 1801 was unanimously adopted by a rising vote of the House on May 19, 2011.

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Chief Clerk of the HouseAAA

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