Sean Reyes: “this is a very serious debate about a very serious issue that can potentially have very serious consequences on…”

“this is a very serious debate about a very serious issue that can potentially have very serious consequences on communities along the border. Again, let us one by one separate fact from fiction. My colleague, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant) talks about 5 tons of heroin coming across the border and asked the rhetorical question: If 5 tons of heroin can come across the border, cannot a nuclear weapon come across the border? Yes. Absolutely. But I can tell my colleague from Ohio, there has never been one incident on the U.S.-Mexican border where 5 tons of heroin have come across the border. There has never been one single incident where 1 ton of Mexican brown heroin has come across the border. I know because I worked it, I lived it, I did it. I fought the war on drugs. Part of what we need to understand here is to get a grip on what the facts are and what all the rhetoric is and separate these two things. First of all, heroin is introduced into this country in very small quantities because it is a very valuable commodity, and drug smuggling organizations do not want to risk millions of dollars on one intercepted package.”