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James Traficant: “According to reports, Mexico's drug cartel is recruiting American kids in street gangs in the city of San Diego. That is…”

On the recordMarch 3, 1998
According to reports, Mexico's drug cartel is recruiting American kids in street gangs in the city of San Diego. That is right. California has become the new breeding ground for Mexican drug traffickers. Unbelievable. While the Pentagon last year spent $3 billion in Bosnia and Iraq, the Pentagon has announced they are going to suspend their operations on our borders. Beam me up. Let us put the seed corn where the fertilizer can reach it, Mr. Speaker. If Congress can spend billions of dollars to secure foreign borders for foreign citizens in foreign lands, then the Congress of the United States can secure the border in America for the American people. I just have one thing to say to the Pentagon. Suspend this. Are we inhaling or what?
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Addressing drug trafficking and border security during a speech in Congress.

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