[Budget of the United States Government]
[V. Preparing For the 21st Century]
[8. Enforcing the Law]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


 
                          8.  ENFORCING THE LAW

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  ``Americans are safer today than they have been in many years. Our strategy of putting more police on the beat
and getting guns off the street is working. Americans have taken back their neighborhoods, and shown that rising
crime and deadly violence need not be tolerated. But in far too many communities, crime remains a serious
problem, and our work is far from done.''
 
                                      President Clinton
                                      November 1998
 

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   The Administration's sustained and aggressive efforts to fight crime 
have been extraordinarily successful. For more than six years, serious 
crime has fallen uninterrupted. The murder rate is down by more than 28 
percent, its lowest point in three decades. And after years of steady 
increases, drug use among teens is beginning to level off, and even 
decline. These successes are the result of a simple, three-part 
strategy:
   putting more police on the street and promoting community 
          policing while taking measures to deter violent offenders and 
          gun violence;
   controlling alien smuggling and illegal immigration into the 
          United States, and the drug smuggling and other illegal 
          activities that can accompany it, through reliance on stepped-
          up border enforcement and the use of technology; and
   fighting drug abuse on all fronts, especially among children, 
          by vigorously enforcing the Nation's drug laws and developing 
          prevention programs which give children an alternative to 
          crime and drugs and a chance for a positive future.
   A cornerstone of the Administration's crime-fighting strategy, 
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), went into force at the 
start of the President's first term. With expanded resources for 
enforcement, and reliance on neighborhood involvement, COPS has brought 
stability and security to many once-dangerous neighborhoods. COPS has 
encouraged citizens to work with officers and other authorities in the 
criminal justice system to combat and prevent crime in their 
neighborhoods. And it has put more officers on the beat. COPS will 
achieve its goal of putting 100,000 officers on the beat in 1999-- ahead 
of schedule and under budget--making all communities that much safer.
   The next step in the President's anti-crime strategy is the new 21st 
Century Policing Initiative. It continues the Administration's 
commitment to keep the number of officers on the beat at an all-time 
high, by helping communities hire, redeploy, and retain police officers. 
It also builds on the COPS program in two key ways. First, it provides 
significant new funds to give law enforcement access to the latest 
crime-fighting and crime-solving technologies--improved police 
communications, crime mapping, laptop computers, crime lab improvements, 
and more. Second, the initiative makes an unprecedented commitment to 
engage the entire community in the hard work of preventing and fighting 
crime--by funding new community-based prosecutors, and partnerships with 
probation and parole officers, school officials, and faith-based 
organizations.
   The budget also builds on the Administration's efforts to combat gun 
crime. On the legislative front, the Administration has won difficult 
victories in passing some of the toughest gun laws ever--including the 
Brady Law, the ban on assault weapons, and the Youth Handgun Safety Act. 
To build on these achievements and to further enhance law enforcement's 
ability to curb the use of guns in our society, the budget proposes a 
plan to address gun crime by enhancing and better coordinating the 
enforcement of Federal firearms laws. It also devotes signifi

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cant resources for Federal, State, and local gun tracing, investigation, 
and prosecution.

Fighting Crime

   The budget proposes $26.4 billion to control crime (see Chart 8-1). 
Of the total, $4.5 billion would go for programs authorized in the 1994 
Crime Act. While enhancing Federal anti-crime capabilities, the budget 
seeks to empower States and communities, which play the central role in 
controlling crime, particularly violent crime.

   21st Century Policing Initiative:  The $1.275 billion initiative (see 
Chart 8-2) includes the following:
   More police on the streets: $600 million will be used to hire 
          and redeploy more law enforcement officers, with an effort to 
          target new police officers to crime ``hot spots.'' A portion 
          of the funds will also be used to help economically-distressed 
          communities retain new police hires, and for other programs to 
          train, educate, and recruit law enforcement officers.
   Crime fighting technology: $350 million will be used to help 
          State and local law enforcement agencies improve police 
          communications, crime mapping, laptop computers, and crime lab 
          improvements.
   Community based prosecutors: $200 million will be used to 
          hire new community-based prosecutors and develop community-
          based prosecution programs. These prosecutors will interact 
          directly with the community. Prosecutors are increasingly 
          being asked to designate attorneys to work in neighborhoods 
          that disperately need help, in order to help solve local crime 
          problems, and to focus on methods of crime prevention.
   Community crime prevention: $125 million to engage the entire 
          community in preventing and fighting crime. These funds could 
          be used to: work with probation and parole officers in 
          supervising released offenders; work with local school 
          officials in adopting community-wide plans to prevent school 
          violence; involve faith-based organi

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          zations in juvenile crime prevention; and establish citizens' 
          police academies that teach neighborhood residents problem-
          solving skills.
  Narrowband Communications: In addition, the Justice and 
          Treasury Departments will be able to upgrade the Federal 
          wireless communication systems' efficiency, security, and 
          compatibility with the radio systems of State and local public 
          safety agencies. This communications network will ensure that 
          the Nation's public safety workers can communicate with each 
          other securely, swiftly and effectively.

   Firearms Enforcement: The Administration supports hiring more Federal 
prosecutors and agents for an intensified effort to keep guns out of the 
hands of criminals, reduce youth violence, and make America's streets 
safer. As part of this effort, the Justice Department, working with the 
States and the Treasury Department, is now conducting computerized 
background checks on all firearms purchases. In its first four weeks, 
the new National Instant Check System has reviewed 779,170 prospective 
gun sales to make sure only law-abiding citizens take home new guns. 
Federal gun checks kept 7,900 felons, fugitives, stalkers, and other 
criminals from purchasing new firearms--an average of 290 illegal gun 
sales blocked every day.
   The Administration proposes $5 million to increase firearms 
prosecutions based on focused Federal-local law enforcement efforts to 
incarcerate and deter armed violent criminals, violent youth offenders, 
and illegal gun traffickers. To support these prosecutions, the 
Administration also proposes $23.8 million and 160 additional Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) agents to investigate and arrest 
violent criminals and gun traffickers, which will extend the Youth Crime 
Gun Interdiction Initiative from 27 to 37 cities and support 
investigations of illegal activity associated with gun shows and illegal 
attempts to purchase firearms.

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   Law Enforcement on Indian Lands: Homicide and violent crime rates on 
Indian lands are rising, even as crime rates in the rest of the country 
fall. The Administration proposes $164 million for the second year of 
this joint Justice and Interior Departments initiative which provides 
anti-crime grants to Indian jurisdictions. The money is used to increase 
the number of fully trained and equipped police officers in Indian 
country and to improve the quality of detention facilities on Indian 
lands.
   Violence Against Women: Violence against women is a continuing 
problem. Studies show that law enforcement intervention often breaks the 
cycle of domestic violence, preventing subsequent incidents. The budget 
proposes $456 million to maintain efforts to combat gender-based crime. 
Funding for these programs will also enable States to further expand 
outreach to previously under-served rural, Indian, and other minority 
populations.
   Juveniles: The budget proposes $194 million for programs to fight 
juvenile crime and $95 million to support more local community 
prevention programs such as mentoring, truancy prevention, and gang 
intervention. To prevent young people from becoming involved in the 
juvenile justice system, the budget expands programs that provide 
supervised afternoon and evening activities for youth. The budget 
provides an additional $6 million in 2000 to the Departments of Health 
and Human Services and Justice to investigate and prosecute the most 
egregious child support violators.
   Certainty of Punishment: The budget proposes $35 million for grants 
to States, local governments, and Indian Tribes to develop and implement 
innovative punishment alternatives to incarceration and probation for 
young offenders. The program aims to ensure certain punishment, to 
strengthen accountability and responsibility, to foster reduced 
recidivism, and to promote assistance for victims.
  Gangs: The Administration intends to crack down on violent youth gangs 
and to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and away from children. 
It has launched a tough Anti-Gang and Youth Violence Strategy to help 
communities hire more prosecutors and probation officers, and to keep 
schools open later when youth crime rates peak. The budget provides $13 
million for gang reduction programs, including Treasury funded local 
gang education efforts designed to educate youth about the dangers of 
gang involvement.
  Safe Streets Task Forces: The budget proposes $108 million to continue 
the Safe Streets program, which blends the efforts of the FBI and other 
Federal law enforcement agencies with those of State and local police 
departments to investigate street crime and violence.
   Crime in Public Housing: This budget proposes $310 million to support 
anti-drug and anti-crime activities in public housing, including 
Operation Safe Home, and a new Youth Anti-Drug Diversion initiative. The 
Office of Public Housing and the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development's Inspector General jointly administer Operation Safe Home, 
which brings together residents, managers, and various Federal and local 
law enforcement agencies to rid public housing communities of crime. The 
Youth Anti-Drug Diversion program provides funding in support of anti-
drug and anti-crime activities among youths living in public and 
assisted housing, including mentoring and after-school programs focused 
on employment training and job placement.
   State Criminal Alien Assistance: The budget proposes $500 million to 
reimburse State and local governments for the cost of incarcerating 
criminal illegal aliens.
   Terrorism: Acts of domestic terrorism have resulted in deaths and 
injuries to American citizens, while terrorism overseas, as shown by the 
recent bombings in east Africa, has taken an even heavier toll. The 
Administration has sought more Federal resources to ensure the safety 
and security of the public and the Government from these violent and 
devastating criminal acts. The budget provides $8.5 billion to combat 
terrorism, of which $5 billion would support the Defense Department's 
(DOD) terrorism-related and force protection efforts. While much of the 
proposed funding continues, current terrorism-related programs in 
physical protection and law enforcement activities, the budget also 
provides increases in the following high-priority areas:

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   Weapons of mass destruction: The budget proposes fully 
          funding the second year of the Administration's 1999 chemical/
          biological weapons initiative, including: $174 million for the 
          Justice Department to improve the capability of State and 
          local governments to prepare for and respond to weapons of 
          mass destruction; more than $100 million for DOD domestic 
          preparedness and response capabilities; $35 million for the 
          Department of Energy's emergency response capabilities for 
          nuclear terrorist events; and $17 million for the Department 
          of Health and Human Services' Metropolitan Medical Strike 
          Teams, which handle the medical response to an incident 
          involving biological or chemical weapons of mass destruction.
   Critical infrastructure protection/cyber crime: The budget 
          proposes over $1.4 billion for critical infrastructure 
          protection across the Government. These funds support a 
          national effort to assure the security of our increasingly 
          vulnerable and interconnected infrastructures, such as 
          telecommunications, banking and finance, energy, 
          transportation, and essential government services. Of the 
          total, $46 million enhances the investigative and 
          prosecutorial efforts of the FBI, the U.S. Attorneys, and the 
          Justice Department's Criminal Division. The budget also 
          supports critical infrastructure-related research and 
          development programs in DOD and other agencies. In aggregate, 
          the 2000 request exceeds 1999 enacted levels by more than $400 
          million.
   Aviation security: The budget provides $100 million to the 
          Federal Aviation Administration for airport explosives 
          detection equipment in support of recommendations of the White 
          House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security.
   Financial crime: The Treasury Department is developing a 
          national strategy for combating money laundering and related 
          financial crime. This strategy relies on the efforts of a 
          number of Treasury bureaus, including the U.S. Customs Service 
          and the Internal Revenue Service, which identify, disrupt, and 
          dismantle criminal organizations that launder the proceeds 
          generated by smuggling, trade fraud, export violations, and a 
          range of other illegal activities. The Financial Crimes 
          Enforcement Network also provides money laundering case 
          support to local, State, and Federal agencies.

Meeting the Challenges of Immigration

   The United States is a Nation of immigrants. While we welcome legal 
immigrants to our Nation, the United States is also a Nation of laws and 
it is imperative to take serious measures to bar illegal immigrants from 
making their way across America's borders. Illegal immigration can 
threaten public safety when it is accompanied by organized drug, alien 
smuggling and gang activities that increase disorder in our communities.
   The Administration has done more to control illegal immigration than 
any Administration before it. Working through the Immigration and 
Naturalization Service (INS), the Administration has reversed decades of 
neglect along the Southwest border with an aggressive border control 
strategy. Since 1993, this strategy has added nearly 5,000 new Border 
Patrol agents--more than double the 1993 levels--fully equipped with 
state-of-the-art technology, border barriers and infrastructure to gain 
control and return the rule of law to the border. However, we must do 
more. The budget continues to fund this bipartisan effort to gain 
control and effectively manage our Nation's borders. (See Table 8-1 for 
INS funding by program.)
   While the Administration takes steps to curb illegal immigration, 
which is a threat to our society, it must also be responsive to those 
who seek to immigrate to this country by legal means, those who come 
here to work hard and play by the rules, and who may also fear 
persecution in their homeland.
   The Administration is reengineering the naturalization process which, 
since 1995, has seen a dramatic upsurge in demand for naturalization. 
Due to this unprecedented flood of applications, the Nation welcomed 
over a million new citizens in 1997, and 473,152 citizens in 1998. There 
is currently a backlog of over 1.8 million applicants waiting for the 
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                      Table 8-1.  IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE FUNDING BY PROGRAM
                                 (Budget authority, dollar amounts in millions)
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                                                                                               Dollar    Percent
                                                                  1998      1999      2000     Change:   Change:
                                                                 Actual   Estimate  Proposed   1999 to   1999 to
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Appropriated Funds:
  Border Patrol...............................................       875       917     1,044      +127      +14%
  Investigations and intelligence.............................       271       293       324       +31      +10%
  Land border inspections.....................................       168       172       189       +17      +10%
  Detention and deportation...................................       413       474       577      +103      +22%
  Program support and construction............................       614       704       802       +98      +14%
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    Subtotal, Appropriated Funds..............................     2,342     2,560     2,935      +376      +15%
 
Fee Collections and Reimbursements:
  Citizenship and benefits....................................       719       636       689       +53       +8%
  Air/sea inspections and support.............................       412       486       518       +32       +7%
  Immigration support.........................................       203       184       127       -57      -31%
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    Subtotal, Fee Collections and Reimbursements..............     1,333     1,306     1,334       +28       +2%
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Total, Immigration and Naturalization Service.................     3,675     3,866     4,269      +403      +10%
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  and valuable benefit the Federal Government can bestow--citizenship. 
  The Administration is committed to ensuring that the benefits of 
  citizenship are provided in a timely manner.--------------------------

   Border Control and Enforcement: The budget continues last year's 
level of Border Patrol staffing at nearly 9,000 agents--a 127-percent 
increase from 3,965 agents--representing a year of consolidation after 
steady growth since the start of this Administration. The budget 
increases the Administration's commitment to border control by proposing 
$50 million in funding for ``force-multiplying'' technologies, including 
border monitoring with high resolution color and infrared cameras and 
state-of-the-art command centers. This combination of surveillance 
technology, Integrated Surveillance Intelligence System (ISIS), provides 
the capability to monitor the border from remote sites. Reliance on this 
advanced technology will permit Border Patrol agents to monitor the 
border more effectively and increase their ability to actively respond 
to incursions. The $50 million budget request will fund the deployment 
of approximately 200 systems, adding capacity to monitor areas that 
would otherwise require the addition of approximately 1,000 extra 
agents. The deployment of these systems ensures an immediate and 
effective deterrent while the Border Patrol more effectively deploys and 
builds the experience base of the agents it has hired and trained over 
the past several years.
   The budget also provides funds to expand, renovate and construct 
Border Patrol stations, border barriers and fencing, install permanent 
lighting, and construct support roads along the Southwest border. These 
deterrents help control the border by increasing the abilities of Border 
Patrol agents to apprehend those trying to enter illegally. Since 1993, 
INS has added over 165 night scopes, 5,115 ground sensors, 97 miles of 
fencing, and 22 miles of border lighting. It has also added or improved 
over 1,500 miles of roads. The budget provides funds for another 18 
miles of border lighting and additional fencing, and for maintaining 
border deterrents now in place.

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   Detention and Removal of Illegal Aliens: The Administration is 
committed to removing those who have entered the country illegally. With 
the resources provided over the past few years, INS has targeted its 
efforts primarily on removing aliens held in Federal, State and local 
facilities to ensure these criminal are not allowed back on the street. 
In 1998, INS removed 169,072 aliens, including 55,211 criminal aliens. 
The budget supports INS' detention program by proposing a $42.5 million 
increase for detention facilities, transportation, and contract bed 
space to detain and swiftly remove those who have entered illegally. An 
additional $54 million is requested to fund detention operations 
previously funded from a depleted Breached Bond/Detention Fund account.
   Border and Port-of-Entry Coordination: The United States Customs 
Service (Customs) and the INS have developed a strategic plan to expand 
cooperation on the Southwest border focused on increasing the 
interdiction of illegal drugs, aliens and other contraband. The border 
management agencies have announced six initiatives along the Southwest 
border aimed at improving coordination.
  These initiatives include:
   replicating the successful San Ysidro, California, port 
          management model which combines enforcement, traffic 
          management and community partnership to all major land ports;
   expanding joint intelligence operations and creating Customs/
          INS intelligence teams;
   adopting a unified investigative approach focusing on 
          seizures and controlled drug deliveries originating from ports 
          of entry;
   sharing research, development, and deployment of border and 
          port technology;
   promoting interoperable wireless communications; and
   developing a coordinated air and marine interdiction 
          capability.
  These initiatives, which began in 1998, are expected to result in a 
fully integrated border management approach by Customs and INS along the 
entire Southwest border by 2003.
   In primary inspection and areas of shared responsibility, Customs and 
INS have seen virtually the same level of staffing growth from 1993 to 
1997, with both agencies adding approximately 1200 inspectors. Since 
1998, the Administration has targeted INS inspection staff on primary 
vehicle and pedestrian inspections, where the use of illegal and 
fraudulent entry documents poses the greatest enforcement threat. This 
has permitted Customs to focus greater attention on cargo inspection and 
pre- and post-inspection roving operations in the passenger environment. 
These efforts have helped to control the entry of illegal drugs into the 
country and to expand outbound vehicle inspections to control the 
smuggling of contraband.
   To ensure a comparable mix of Customs and INS enforcement staff and 
technology at ports of entry, Customs will continue to deploy narcotics 
detection technology to support cargo and passenger inspection 
operations. The budget includes $6 million for INS inspectors for ports 
scheduled to open in 2000. Customs inspectors were funded for these 
ports in the 1999 Budget.

   Citizenship and Benefits: The Administration is committed to building 
and maintaining a naturalization system that ensures integrity and 
provides service and benefits in a timely manner. The surge of 
citizenship applications in 1995 required the INS to reengineer what had 
previously been a manual operation built to handle a far smaller 
application volume. The INS also had to address unprecedented growth in 
naturalization applications from approximately 340,000 annually to 
nearly 1.6 million applicants in 1997. The record number of 
applications, antiquated INS processes, and complicated reengineering 
efforts have all contributed to an unacceptable citizenship application 
backlog of over 1.8 million cases.
   In 1999, the Administration worked with Congress to obtain $176 
million in appropriated and reprogrammed funds to supplement the INS fee 
revenue. These resources have funded the process reengineering and the 
backlog reduction initiatives. The 1999 funding request was accompanied 
by a series of INS initiatives including:

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   establishing backlog reduction teams in the five offices 
          responsible for 65 percent of the caseload and hiring 200 
          addition adjudicators,
   expanding support staff and contract services;
   establishing an Immigration Services Division to coordinate 
          backlog reduction and process reengineering;
   creating a customer service telephone center to provide an 
          accurate and timely responses to inquiries; and
   centralizing application and medical waiver review to ensure 
          quality and integrity.
   The budget provides $124 million to continue funding these 
initiatives and to assist INS in finalizing the naturalization process 
reengineering in 2000. The result of these funding enhancements is that 
the unacceptable backlog--which currently requires applicants to wait 
upwards of two years for immigration benefits they are eligible for 
now--should be reduced to a six to nine month waiting period.

Reducing Drug Use, Trafficking, and its Consequences

   Drug use and its damaging consequences cost our society more than 
$110 billion a year \1\ and poison the schools and neighborhoods where 
our youth strive to meet their full potential. Illicit drug trafficking 
thrives on a culture of crime, violence, and corruption throughout the 
world. Drug use is a major contributing factor in the spread of AIDS and 
other deadly diseases. All Americans, regardless of economic, 
geographic, or other position in society, feel the effects of drug use 
and drug-related crime.
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  \1\ National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Alcohol 
Abuse and Alcoholism, March 1998.
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   The budget proposes $17.8 billion for drug control programs, a 4.3-
percent increase over the 1999 budget, which was supplemented with $844 
million in emergency funds primarly to provide one-time capital 
investments for boats and planes. The budget supports increases for key 
elements in the mission to reduce drug use and its consequences, such as 
drug treatment and prevention, especially for children and adolescents; 
domestic law enforcement; and other supply reduction programs (see Table 
8-2).

   Community-Based Prevention: The budget proposes $2.5 billion for drug 
prevention programs. The percentage of 8th, 10th, and 12th grade 
students reporting that they used marijuana at least once in the past 
month decreased sightly from 1997 to 1998. This is the second year of 
decline for 8th graders and the first year for 10th and 12th graders. 
The use of other drugs, including alcohol, cigarettes, cocaine, and 
heroin either declined or remained stable over this period. 
Additionally, the view that drug use is harmful appears to be more 
deeply shared, particularly among the youngest age segment. These 
results indicate that America's youth are receptive to the 
Administration's ``no use'' message and that it should reinforce this 
message and expand upon recent gains.
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                                        Table 8-2.  DRUG CONTROL FUNDING
                                 (Budget authority, dollar amounts in millions)
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                                                                                               Dollar    Percent
                                                              1998        1999        2000     Change:   Change:
                                                             Actual   Estimate \1\  Proposed   1999 to   1999 to
                                                                                                2000      2000
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Demand reduction..........................................     5,372       5,830       6,040      +210       +4%
Supply reduction..........................................    10,726      11,212      11,737      +525       +5%
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   Total, Drug Control Funding............................    16,098      17,042      17,777      +735      +4%
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\1\ Excludes $844 million in emergency funds provided primarily for one-time capital investments.

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   National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign: The Office of National Drug 
Control Policy, in conjunction with other Federal, State, local, and 
private experts, is implementing a $195 million national media campaign, 
including paid advertisements, targeting youth and their parents on the 
consequences of illicit drug use. Advertisers are required to provide a 
``pro bono'' match for each dollar the Federal government spends on 
these paid advertisements. The anti-drug media campaign is fully 
integrated Nationwide, including utilization of the Internet and the 
entertainment industry. This campaign will continue in 2000 with 
proposed funding $10 million higher than 1999.
   Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Program: Students can 
reach their full potential only in safe, disciplined, and drug free 
learning environments. The Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities 
program helps 97 percent of school districts implement anti-drug and 
anti-violence programs in schools. The budget proposes $591 million for 
this program, including $90 million in competitive grants to high-need 
areas that use proven program designs and $50 million for the School 
Drug Prevention Coordinators program. The proposed funding, 43 percent 
more than in 1999, will enable nearly half of the Nation's middle 
schools to have a knowledgeable director of drug and violence prevention 
programs to ensure that local programs are effective and link school-
based prevention programs to community-based programs.
   Drug Free Communities Act: The budget proposes $22 million, a 10-
percent increase over 1999 for activities under this Act that promote 
citizen participation in our efforts to reduce substance abuse among 
youth and provide funds to help community anti-drug coalitions carry out 
their important missions.
   Drug Treatment: The budget proposes $3.6 billion to treat drug abuse, 
six percent more than in 1999. The Administration realizes that an 
effective treatment system must confront drug abuse where the challenge 
is the greatest--in the streets of urban, suburban, and rural drug 
markets, and in the criminal justice system. It is a top priority to 
close the gap between the capacity of the public treatment system and 
all those who could benefit from substance abuse treatment. These 
chronic drug users consume a disproportionate amount of the illicit 
drugs used and inflict a disproportionate share of drug-related costs on 
society.
   Zero Tolerance Drug Supervision: The budget includes $215 million to 
promote zero tolerance drug supervision for persons under criminal 
justice supervision. Specifically, it proposes: (1) $100 million to help 
States and localities implement tough new systems to drug test, treat, 
and punish prisoners, parolees and probationers; (2) $50 million for 
drug courts that work to break non-violent offenders of their drug 
habits; and (3) $65 million to provide intensive drug treatment to 
hardcore drug users before and after they are released from prison.
   Domestic Drug Law Enforcement: The budget proposes $9.2 billion for 
drug-related domestic law enforcement, 3.5 percent more than in 1999, to 
help bolster community-based law enforcement efforts, shield the 
Southwest border from illicit drugs, and enhance coordination among 
Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies. The budget proposes 
an increase of $22 million for the Drug Enforcement Administration 
(DEA), most of which is to increase staff productivity through an 
improved information, telecommunications, and technology infrastructure. 
The Federal Government will continue its focus on providing leadership 
and training; facilitating multi-agency cooperative efforts through the 
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program, the Southwest border 
initiative, and other efforts; and offering incentives to States and 
localities to use the most effective drug control methods.
   International Programs and Interdiction: The Administration's 
comprehensive approach to combating drug use includes an enhanced 
international strategy, making it harder for drug-criminals to smuggle 
illicit drugs into the United States. The budget includes funds to 
upgrade interdiction efforts along the Southwest border and in the 
Caribbean, and continues to provide heightened assistance to foreign 
governments to curtail drug cultivation and production. In addition, the 
budget fully supports the operation of the planes and boats provided for 
in the 1999 Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act.

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   Source Nation Efforts: Internationally, the United States focuses 
primarily on interdiction in source countries and transit zones, 
disrupting the drug organizations and their production, marketing, and 
money laundering structures. The budget proposes an increase of $29 
million over the 1999 base program level to continue funding 
counternarcotics programs in source nations, mainly Columbia, Peru, and 
Bolivia. It proposes continued funding for enhanced coca, opium poppy, 
and marijuana crop eradication efforts, and to provide training, 
logistics, equipment, intelligence, and communications support to source 
nations. The budget also provides for relocation of the U.S. 
Government's drug mission from Panama to other localities in the region 
in compliance with the Panama Canal Treaty.
   Southern Tier of the United States: The Administration remains 
committed to shielding the Nation's Southern tier from the drug threat. 
Customs will continue to deploy technology, such as the use of x-rays in 
the air passenger and outbound environments, to detect illicit 
contraband and currency. The budget further solidifies the interdiction 
effort by providing $50 million for the technological equivalent of 
adding another 1,000 border patrol agents, of which $7.5 million 
supports anti-drug programs. An increase of $36 million, or 7.4 percent 
above the 1999 level, expands Coast Guard interdiction operations beyond 
the levels initiated with 1999 emergency supplemental funding.