Mark Souder: “we have an important vote coming up today on decertification of Mexico, and this is not a battle over whether we are…”

“we have an important vote coming up today on decertification of Mexico, and this is not a battle over whether we are friends or not friends. Like it or not in Mexico and like it or not in America, we are going to have to work together like close friends have to work together, and part of working together is trying to address joint problems. There is a feeling sometimes that we are trying, as Big Brother, to force our will on Mexico without reducing our own demand. We are working aggressively to reduce our demand. In America we have drug dogs in our schools, we are building more prisons then we ever dreamed we needed to, we have upped our treatment and our prevention budgets by 50 percent. But the reason we are doing this is an example front-page headline in Ft. Wayne last week: ``I-69 Crash Linked To Cocaine And Pot.'' A youngster on cocaine and marijuana flipped his car, landed on a pickup driven by another young person, which then landed on a car driven by another person, which forced it into another vehicle and veered into the median, which then hit a pile up into a sixth vehicle. Because we are being flooded with cocaine coming in from Mexico we have to take strong steps.”