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Dianne Feinstein: as he told the Post: I go to the banks, offices, just like any Mexican. Every day I pass by roadblocks, police…

On the recordMarch 10, 1997
as he told the Post: I go to the banks, offices, just like any Mexican. Every day I pass by roadblocks, police, soldiers, and there are no problems. I'm in the streets all the time. How can they not find me? Because they're not looking for me. According to law enforcement, the Sonora cartel cultivates, smuggles, and distributes heroin and marijuana to the United States, as well as transporting Colombian cocaine. It has operations reaching into Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Louisiana. The Washington Post found him, but the Mexican police, up to the last few days, were not even looking for him. Perhaps the State Department would explain how this qualifies as 'full cooperation' with the United States. I do not see it. The other incident was a typical February story. I sometimes wish February would last all year round because the pressure of the March 1 certification decision seems to produce all kinds of results that we are unable to get the rest of the year, but on March 2, frequently it is business as usual. Just hours before the President's decision on certification was to be made public, the Mexican Government announced with great fanfare the arrest of Humberto Garcia Abrego, a leader of the Gulf cartel. Leave aside the question of why Mexican authorities were unable to arrest this man the rest of the year but miraculously found him on February 27.…
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Dianne Feinstein
Democratic · California

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Discussing issues of drug cartels and U.S.-Mexico cooperation on law enforcement.

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