DOLE. reacted with justifiable indignation to a May 12 Los Angeles Times report indicating that the Clintonappointed U.S. attorney in San Diego is failing to prosecute some of the drug smugglers detected and reported to him. In fact. more than 1.000 suspected traffickers have been sent back to Mexico since 1994 with scarcely more than a slap on the wristif that. The U.S. attorneys office in San Diego reportedly has virtually discontinued filing charges or prosecuting drug smugglers. Instead they are merely deported. The Los Angeles paper estimates that 25 percent of all detected drug smugglers in the southern district of California are sent back to Mexico where they are free to renew attempts to smuggle drugs into the United States. Senator DOLES concerns are wellfounded.
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