Lawmaker challenges border security priorities

Lawmaker challenges border security priorities

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Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., said the situation in Mexico is far more important than Afghanistan at this point. "We need to raise this to a higher level," Lewis told The Associated Press.

Speaking at a homeland security subcommittee hearing, Lewis praised the Homeland Security Department for using unmanned aerial vehicles along the border, but he slammed DoD for not providing helicopters to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border.

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I am glad somebody is bringing attention to the American border with Mexico. He says that we should be paying a LOT more attention to the happenings in Mexico right now, than Afghanistan. That is understandable, considering we do not have a few states connected to Afghanistan.

But what it all comes down to, is that dealing with Mexico apparently wouldn't be profitable... or surely we would have already done it, right?

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