El Chapo and other drug dealers should pay for the border wall

BizPac Review:
Republican Senator Ted Cruz says the United States must build a border wall, and Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman should pay for it.

Cruz first made the suggestion in April 2017, when El Chapo was awaiting trial. He doubled-down on it yesterday, shortly after Guzman was convicted on 10 drug conspiracy charges in a federal court in New York.
Senator Cruz — an accomplished attorney who graduated from Harvard Law School — tweeted:

U.S. prosecutors are seeking $14 billion in drug profits and other assets from El Chapo, which should go towards funding our wall. Let’s pass the El Chapo Act and make El Chapo pay to secure our border.”

The $14 billion the US is seeking in illicit drug profits from El Chapo’s criminal enterprise is more than double the $5.7 billion President Trump wants for the wall.

The one problem is that the US doesn’t have immediate access to those funds and officials don’t know for sure how much they will find.
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I first raised this issue in blog posts some time ago and shortly after that Cruz made his proposal which he recently renewed with the new Congress and with the trial drawing to a conclusion.  It is a good idea and would be poetic justice.  There are probably other drug assets that could be seized to finish the wall.

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