Mr. Chairman. this amendment that 1 bring and the simple function of it goes into the large $6 billion appropriations piece. takes out $1 million and puts back in $1 million. and it is for the purposes of directing customs and border protection and our border protection people to go in and take out the lookout posts that have been established. I will call them my military positions. from the Mexican border all the way up to Phoenix. through Tucson all the way up to Phoenix. In the time that Ive spent on the southern border. the Border Patrol people have pointed out to me. the shadow wolves have pointed out to me. ICE people have pointed out to me that the lookouts that have been established there will be on top of those small mountains that overlook the transportation routes. And so what they do with their sophisticated. the drug smugglers. the drug cartel. with their sophisticated surveillance equipment. good optical equipment. good radio equipment. with scramblers and descramblers ahead of us. they position one or two people on top of those lookout mountains. and then they can tell their own people exactly where the Border Patrol are. They can run a decoy through those routes. and as soon as the Border Patrol converges on that decoy. they will sacrifice 200 pounds of marijuana. Ive been there to help interdict that. Meanwhile. they run the truckload through when all those focused resources are on that lookout.
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