Our security interests are also at stake here. We have seen time and again how economic instability can foment political turmoil. which in turn can require American political or military involvement. In the past. as the citizens of my home State of Florida know all too well. economic and political instability has also resulted in massive refugee flows to the United States. which place an unfair burden on U.S. taxpayers. Second. the Caribbean has been one of the principal transit regions for drug traffickers moving their poisonous cargo from the source countries of South America. Several years ago. our efforts at reducing drug trafficking in the Caribbean were so successful that we diverted the traffickers to the Southwest border.