[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8466]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       AMERICAN BORDERS WIDE OPEN

  (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, there is no war on drugs or terrorism in 
America. There is a war on kids. There are more prisons, more police, 
more Federal agents, more drugs than ever. It is unbelievable.
  The reason is very simple. Our borders are wide open. Wide open, 
ladies and gentlemen. Heroin and cocaine coming in by the ton, and a 
nuclear warhead can literally be smuggled across the border.
  Beam me up. A nation that does not secure their borders is a nation 
without security. Today we can pass the Traficant amendment that does 
not mandate but allows the use of troops on the border.
  I yield back Osama bin Laden someday perhaps at our border, and that 
is no joke.

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