We have to have excellent communication with your other agencies. We could do that. We are going to dedicate a larger segment of the 600.000 manned National Guard. and if we did that and utilized them on the Southwest border to support the Border Patrol. the Drug Enforcement Agency and Customs. we could. in fact. make a very large dent on the smuggling traffic across the land border of the United States. That is a point that I wanted to bring out. and simply to report that since June 1. we have had over 20.000that is this June. Just the last 3 weeks or sowe have had over 20.000 illegal aliens arrested Just in the San Diego sector of the international border. That means with that number of people coming across we have large amounts of cocaine right now flowing into the metropolitan areas of southern California. We have had 30 assaults on Border Patrol agents in the last 18 days. 2 illegal aliens killed. and 1 wounded in robberies near the border. and 3 additional alien robberies reported. and 2 border bandits arrested. one local resident assaulted by people wielding clubs on the international border. and we had 121 vehicles drive through the border fence. including 1 In which a smuggling vehicle rammed a stationary Border Patrol vehicle. So. neither country is doing the other a favor by maintaining a lack of law enforcement along the international border and allowing this nomans land to exist. I would offer that neither the United States or Mexico controls the international border at this time.
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