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On the recordJuly 26, 2023
We could lock him up 1,000 times. But what we used to call the old French connection, the people who control the drugs, the international cartels continue to do what they want to do.
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James Comer
Republican · Kentucky

Editor's note · Context

Highlighting the ineffectiveness of targeting small-time dealers instead of cartels.

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