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James Traficant: “Mr. Chairman, the only difference with these two amendments is he says you can put them on the border, but they cannot…”

On the recordMay 21, 1998
Mr. Chairman, the only difference with these two amendments is he says you can put them on the border, but they cannot engage. The Traficant amendment says, I do not limit them. They can tackle them, they can detain them, but they can only be there if the administration wants them, and they must be out there with a civilian law enforcement entity, and they cannot make the arrests, and it specifically states and cites the Posse Comitatus laws. How many more overdoses will we have? Why does not the Congress just deploy troops to the border and then tell them, ``Don't engage.'' Beam me up, really. That states it. That is the drug policy of the United States of America.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Debating the deployment of troops on the border and their engagement rules.

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