Speaker. I rise in strong support of this motion to recommit. It is crucial that the conference report retain the Traficant language authorizing the use of our military forces to protect our Nations borders from illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Its time to face the fact that we are losing the war against drug infiltration into this country and that our Border Patrol is too few in numbers to guard our borders. We have 6.600 Border Patrol personnel to do the work of 20.000. Congress has mandated hiring 1.000 Border Patrol agents a year. but the Immigration and Naturalization Service is having a tough time hiring that numberand it will take another 10 years to reach the level of border support that we need. If we can send our troops to Europe. Haiti. and to Bosnia. we can certainly send them to help protect our own country against criminal encroachment.
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