[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 107 (Thursday, July 10, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H6042-H6043]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                   EFFECTS OF AMERICA'S WAR ON DRUGS

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I spoke about the 
flood of unaccompanied minors crossing our borders to escape drug and 
gang violence caused by America's war on drugs.
  Today I want to speak about the effect of that drug war on young 
people trapped in the inner cities of America on this side of the 
border. Take Chicago, for instance: 58 shot, 14 killed over the July 
Fourth weekend; most involved drugs, if not all.
  Politicians cracked down on drug crime in the eighties and nineties, 
but look at the impact that it has had. It is a failed war on drugs 
that has become a war on urban youth. Many boys on the streets of 
Chicago or Atlanta can barely cross the street without bullets 
streaking past their heads.
  The war on drugs and its impact on our youth needs to end now.

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