[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H6300]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             BORDER PATROLS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, due to an unfortunate shooting on the 
border, the Pentagon has removed our military troops from the Mexican 
border. That shooting must be investigated, but the simple truth is in 
the last 3 months seven Border Patrol agents were shot and the borders 
are now wide open.
  And from the community where this young man was shot, a group came up 
to meet with me, and listen to what they said, Congress. They said they 
want open borders, no immigration. They oppose military troops on the 
border.
  Of an 8-hour shift, the Border Patrol spends 6 hours in coffee shops, 
and their local sheriff was convicted and is in jail for smuggling 
2,200 pounds of cocaine.
  Beam me up. America has no drug program. We have got open borders. We 
have got heroin and cocaine on every street corner. Kids are dying and 
the White House is more concerned with politics than our children. 
Congress, wake up. When it is as easy to get heroin and cocaine as it 
is to get aspirin, there is something wrong in high places.

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