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James Traficant: “Mexico's top narcotics organization has threatened to kidnap and murder American officials. The FBI said the…”

On the recordJuly 9, 1997
Mexico's top narcotics organization has threatened to kidnap and murder American officials. The FBI said the Arellanno-Felix organization, in an effort to protect their drug shipments on our borders, will come in America and will kill. Unbelievable here. America is overrun with heroin and cocaine, we have got kids dying in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and who cares, Congress? Who really cares? And there is now a group of people trying to take the Traficant language out of the defense bill that authorizes, but not mandates, the use of the troops on our borders. Are they nuts? Are they inhaling or what? Wake up, Congress. What has to happen? Will one of these narcotics organizations have to kidnap our drug czar? America has no program, none, zero, and our borders are wide open. Let us start caring for American kids.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Addressing drug violence and the need for border security during a speech in Congress.

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