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James Traficant: “The border is wide open. Heroin and cocaine are coming across the border at, listen to the report, ``record volumes.''…”

On the recordMarch 16, 2000
The border is wide open. Heroin and cocaine are coming across the border at, listen to the report, ``record volumes.'' And nobody is doing anything about it. Now, look, when a 10-year-old kid can get heroin as easily as he can get aspirin, something is dangerously wrong with America. It is time to secure our homeland, time to secure our borders; and we cannot do that with the neighborhood crime watch. It is time to use the military. My colleagues, I yield back the failed national drug strategy that we have in effect. By the way, the victims are our own street kids. There is no war on drugs.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Addressing drug trafficking and border security issues.

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