The committees recommendations also demonstrate the need to expand our drug interdiction efforts. The U.S. Customs Service and Border Patrol continue to represent our first line of defense in putting a stop to the flow of illegal drugs. to get the drugs from the hands of traffickers before they get them in the hands of addicts. H.R. 2622. as amended. correctly recognizes that our strongest stand must continue to be the southwest border region. and has included funding increases for more customs investigators. and other resources to strengthen our air interdiction efforts. This legislation also directs funds from the special forfeiture fund under the Office of National Drug Control Policy to be used for hiring 100 additional U.S. Border Patrol Agents for the southwest border. I firmly believe that spending resources to stop the flow of illegal drugs and illegal aliens is more costeffective in terms of both dollars and lives than waging a drug war in the streets and housing criminal aliens in our jails and prisons. Finally. Mr.
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