Arizona continues to be overwhelmed by the costs it incurs to process drug smugglers and criminal illegal immigrants through its criminal justice systems. Additional border patrol agents and high-technology equipment for Arizona will help reduce the amount of drugs and the number of illegal immigrants who come across Arizona's border. Kyl included language in last year's funding bill for a study to determine the costs of processing illegal immigrants through local criminal justice systems and local law enforcement costs to those communities. These task forces include 15 federal, state, and local law-enforcement agencies. 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. A requirement that a program be developed by INS to better detect incidences of tuberculosis at processing centers and federal, state, and local detention facilities. The INS is encouraged to provide a chest x-ray or other solutions, such as skin tests, at all of these locations. Kyl has secured this funding. The administration did not provide any money for the DEA to continue cleaning up meth labs.