Kyl has been informed that Arizona will receive a significant share of the 306 personnel and the equipment. In San Luis, the average current wait to cross the border is 1.8 hours. These task forces include 15 federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies. Phoenix Police Chief Harold Hurtt and I have been working closely together for this funding. Arizona has become a major distribution point for drug trafficking, and that must stop.
Drugs come through our border and are transported to states throughout the nation, even New York.
That's why it's in our national interest for the federal government to continue providing drug enforcement resources for southwestern states like Arizona.