Foolishly. this is money we do not spend on our own law enforcement officers whose mission it is to stop drugs at our borders and make our streets safe. While President Bush has steadily increased overseas money. he has ignored the budget and the critical personnel needs of the U.S. Border Patrol here at home. The Border Patrol is key to our success in protecting and patrolling the 2.000mile United StatesMexico border. the No. 1 drug trafficking route into our country. As a result. the Border Patrol has less staff today than at any time in the last 10 years. In fact. we have less than one officer for every 20 miles along the critical southwest border. In short. the U.S. Border Patrol is underfunded. undermanned. and overwhelmedand still it is intercepting record amounts of illegal drugs at our borders. I repeat: Whatever we are doing to reduce crime and illegal drug use in America is not working. On the one hand.
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