Webb County's Joe Rubio will stick to the drug case ban he laid down in 1997. Of all the Texas border prosecutors, Rubio was the first to put his foot down against the federal government. It's a federal problem, and it's time for them to pony up to the bar and buy a round like everybody else. If the Texas prosecutors drop the drug cases altogether, the two U.S. attorneys' offices serving the Texas border will be left to pick up the slack. That's no small task for the federal courts, whose caseloads have more than doubled in the past five years.
State prosecutors are sympathetic - but adamant.
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