[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 27282]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



          FAILURE OF THE WAR ON DRUGS DUE TO WIDE OPEN BORDERS

  (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, everybody in America is confused. After 
spending billions and billions of dollars on this War on Drugs, they 
cannot figure out why it has failed. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. It does 
not take a rocket scientist to figure this out.
  Water runs downhill, and drugs pour across our borders. Our borders 
are wide open. Heroin and cocaine are stone-cold imports, and heroin 
and cocaine flood across our borders.
  I think it is time to do something about our borders, and our streets 
and our kids that are strung out, 12-year-olds in New York and 
Philadelphia on heroin.
  I yield back, Mr. Speaker, the stupidity of Congress in dealing with 
the problem of narcotics.

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