Elizabeth Furse: “I want to refer to the conversation that took place earlier regarding the crack situation, the articles of crack cocaine…”

“I want to refer to the conversation that took place earlier regarding the crack situation, the articles of crack cocaine being brought in to fund the Nicaraguan war. There are two points I would like to make: One, that did not just happen in east Los Angeles. It is my understanding from this article that a notorious drug dealer who plagued Portland, OR, the gangs moved into Portland, OR, and they brought the crack cocaine, is also implicated in this issue. So this is a nationwide problem that every one of us needs to be concerned about. The second issue I would like to bring to the chairman and the ranking member is an issue of immigration. We are going to deal with an immigration bill later today, but I wanted to quote from a judge who talked about a notorious person, a Mr. Meneses, who was very involved in this. He was arrested in 1991 in Nicaragua. The judge, Judge Martha Quezada, said, ``How do you explain the fact that Norwin Meneses, implicated since 1974 in the trafficking of drugs, has not been detained in the United States, a country in which he entered, lived, departed many times since 1974?''”