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That is not counting any other illegal drugs. In 1984. according to testimony by Alan Nelson. over 50 million tons of narcotics were seized at the border. Since we only apprehend one in every three illegal aliens. we can assume the actual amount of illegal drugs is a heck of a lot more. Let us look at Palmer Stacys book again: The millions of illegal aliens flooding our country by land. sea and air. clearly have little respect for our lawsAnd I emphasize illegal aliensTheir very presence shows that. Many bring illegal drugs with them as they come. In 1979. INS officers seized nearly 53 tons of marijuana while arresting illegal aliens. Gangs of Mexicans have repeatedly attacked Border Patrol officers with rocks and guns near the border. The Border Patrol has been forced to obtain some special armored vansnicknamed "War Wagons"-in which to conduct border watches. Many illegals engage in crime as soon as they are across the border. Charles Perez. INS director from the El Paso. Texas. area. says half of that citys downtown crime is related to illegal immigration. In Houston. more than 30 percent of the citys murders involve illegal aliens. And Denver Police Chief Art Dill notes that illegals who cannot quickly find work "steal to survive." That is from Palmer Stacy. Let us look at the LA Herald Examiner of Friday. June 17. 1985: Factory Raids Net 180 More Alleged Aliens . . . While Officials Say Illegals are Causing Crime. Illegal aliens. once attracted to northern San Diego County by field labor. are now coming to burglarize homes in the areas welltodo communities. authorities say. Were dealing with illegal aliens as suspects in crimes in numbers that weve never seen before." Escondido police Lt. Mike Stein said. Stein and other law enforcement officials blame the influx of aliensestimated at about 1.000 a dayfor the first increase In the countys crime rate in five years. Deputy district attorneys in the North County Superior Court. which operates out of Vista. estimate that 25 percent of their cases involve illegal aliens. Most of them come to work. but a lot of them come here for the sole purpose of robbing and stealing. Escondido police Detective Joe Santibanez said. Let us look at another issue related to illegal aliens that a lot of us forget about. Very recently on the floor of this body. in a great deal of debate. we debated the issue of terrorism. about how we were going to stop it. and we were going to do everything we could to stop terrorism. We could stop a heck of a lot of it by stopping the illegal aliens who come into this country. Obviously a terrorist who comes into America to blow up an airplane. to assassinate a figure. is not coming here illegally. In many cases. they are. believe it or not. but in most cases they are not.