You can see that. of the 2.000. 1.200 miles is along Texas. Texas has been and will continue to be the key battleground in this war. I am pleased that we have been able to work with the Border Patrol and the committee to correct disparities in placing Border Patrol along the border. As you can see from this chart. Texas has 1.7 agents for every 1 of our 1.254 miles1.7 for this 1.254mile border. New Mexico and Arizona do not fare much better. California has 16.3 agents for every one mile of the border. I cannot go home and tell my constituents that we are doing all we can in the war on drugs if Congress and the administration fail to provide the funding for more Border Patrol agents. Two of Mexicos largest drug cartels. the Juarez cartel and the Matamoros cartel operate from El Paso here and Brownsville. respectively. You can see from this chart that from the Matamoros cartel. the gulf cartel. the drugs go in and over to the eastern seaboard.
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