[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 19 (Tuesday, March 3, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H701]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL RECRUITING STREET GANGS

  (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, according to reports, Mexico's drug 
cartel is recruiting American kids in street gangs in the city of San 
Diego. That is right. California has become the new breeding ground for 
Mexican drug traffickers. Unbelievable.
  While the Pentagon last year spent $3 billion in Bosnia and Iraq, the 
Pentagon has announced they are going to suspend their operations on 
our borders. Beam me up. Let us put the seed corn where the fertilizer 
can reach it, Mr. Speaker. If Congress can spend billions of dollars to 
secure foreign borders for foreign citizens in foreign lands, then the 
Congress of the United States can secure the border in America for the 
American people. I just have one thing to say to the Pentagon. Suspend 
this. Are we inhaling or what?

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