[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11925]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                 AMERICA SHOULD GUARD AMERICAN 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, 90 percent of all crime in America is 
drug related. Eighty percent of all heroin, 80 percent of all cocaine 
comes across the Mexican border. To boot, only three out of every 100 
trucks coming from Mexico are even inspected.
  It is so bad, experts now admit it is even possible for terrorists to 
smuggle nuclear weapons across our border. And after all this, the 
White House wants to send 7,000 American soldiers to guard the borders 
of Yugoslavia.
  Beam me up here. Europe should be guarding the borders of Europe and 
Yugoslavia. America should be guarding the borders of America for the 
American people. Think about that.


  I yield back this weak and foolish national security policy we have 
in place.

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