[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 96 (Friday, July 17, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H5741-H5742]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             PROTECT AMERICA'S BORDERS FROM DRUG SMUGGLERS

  (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, the Drug Czar opposes it, the White House 
opposes it, Immigration opposes it, the Pentagon opposes it. They all 
oppose the Traficant program that authorizes but not mandates the use 
of troops to straighten out our border. But they also have some 
interesting company. The Colombian drug cartel is now reported opposing 
it. The Mexican drug lords oppose it and fear it. The Golden Triangle 
heroin bosses for the first time are worried about getting heroin into 
America.

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  The unusual thing about this program is, the only support I have is a 
number of Members of Congress and the American people, in growing 
numbers.
  Mr. Speaker, the White House will not get it until there is a six-
foot syringe full of heroin shoved up the asset of some bureaucrat at 
the White House.
  Beam me up. What about our children? What about addiction? How many 
years do we lament the use of narcotics, and we allow it to come across 
our border?
  Only one of every three trucks are searched. I say on the House floor 
today, a nuclear warhead could cross our border and we would not know 
it.
  I yield back any common sense left in the government of our country.

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