Last year the San Antonio ExpressNews pointed out that the Redford incident may be isolated but the warning against deploying soldiers into an area lawfully and peacefully used by private citizens needs to be seriously looked at. Mr. Chairman. again let me inform my colleagues that I serve on the Subcommittee on Military Readiness of the Committee on National Security. At the time when readiness concerns are at their highest and with troops sent for extended periods to Bosnia and elsewhere. we cannot afford to pull additional men and women away from their posts to do work that Border Patrol agents should be doing. It is unfair to our fighting men and women and it does harm to our national interests. I ask that we support the Reyes alternative.
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