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Alfonse D'Amato: “Seventy percent of the cocaine in the streets of America come right through the passageway from Mexico that the Senator…”

On the recordJuly 25, 1996
Seventy percent of the cocaine in the streets of America come right through the passageway from Mexico that the Senator has described.
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Alfonse D'Amato

Editor's note · Context

Discussing drug trafficking routes during a Senate debate.

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