[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 160 (Thursday, November 13, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H10772]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   CALLING FOR INVESTIGATION, NOT COMPENSATION, OF MEXICAN GOVERNMENT

  (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, 80 percent of all drugs in America comes 
through Mexico. Heroin use by 12 to 17-year-olds is at a record level. 
Our border patrol agents are being shot at every day. Even the life of 
America's Drug Czar, General McCaffrey, has now been threatened by the 
Mexican drug cartel. And after all this, Mexican President Zedillo says 
he blames the drug problem on America and wants America to compensate 
Mexico for all of the garbage we are causing.
  Unbelievable. Our borders are wide open, our kids are strung out, our 
prisons overloaded, and Mexico wants to be paid for it.
  Beam me up. If this is a war on drugs, I am a fashion leader.
  What is next, Mr. Speaker? Foreign aid for Saddam Hussein?
  Do we have any brains left?
  I say we should investigate the Mexican Government not compensate 
them.

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