So the administration has invoked this waiver. and I want to commend Secretary Chertoff for undertaking that waiver because its absolutely necessary if were going to get the fence built. Otherwise. we will never get it built. And today the southwest border. and particularly Texas along with Arizona. are absolutely on fire with the smuggling of drugs and illegal aliens. And last year they moved about 22 metric tons of cocaine across the border. across the southwest border. and about 368 tons of marijuana. So its still a trafficking corridor or a series of corridors which are flowing relatively unimpeded by this relatively small force of Border Patrolmen and Customs and DEA agents who attend the border. But getting that doubleborder fence up. and in some cases its a single fenceI would like to see a double fence all the way acrossbut getting that fence up Is going to have a great. very salutary effect on law enforcement in the United States. And Im reminded that when we built the double fence in San Diego. the crime rate by FBI statistics in the county of San Diego dropped by 56.3 percent.
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