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Ted Cruz: "Make El Chapo Pay for the Wall". I like it.

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I love this idea...which could be extended to a variety of areas, and a variety of legal asset seizures!

Should have used Iran's previously frozen assets to fight Iranian-sponsored terrorism , for example, instead of retuening it to them for use in financing their attacks in Syria, etc.

Use any seized assets from cyber hackers to fund advancements in cyber security...etc...etc...


Ted Cruz Is Right: Make El Chapo Pay for the Wall


It would be poetic justice, is deliciously named, and wouldn’t cost the taxpayers a dime. It doesn’t make Mexico pay for the wall, just one particular Mexican who has done great injury to the people of the United States and who is responsible for a major part of drugs flooding into the United States.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a bill calling for the use of $14 billion seized from cartel drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to be used to pay for the President’s border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

“Fourteen billion dollars will go a long way toward building a wall that will keep Americans safe and hinder the illegal flow of drugs, weapons, and individuals across our southern border,” Senator Cruz stated, according to a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas from the senator’s office…

The Texas senator said that leveraging criminally forfeited assets from El Chapo and other Mexican cartel members and drug dealers can “offset the wall’s cost and make meaningful progress toward achieving President Trump’s stated border security objectives
.”








https://www.americanthinker.com/art...Yvzpjpn94WL_60mHAVLLu5YTzt3bVWE2oqypOznFMFqJY
 
Ted Cruz has a good idea.

THAT does not happen every day!
 

Yeah, screw the homeless veterans that need help, instead let's build a wall. :roll: You guys continually show why conservatives should not be in charge of any government branch.
 
The wall isn’t going to affect the smuggling of the cartel’s drugs. Over 95% of drugs coming in nowadays come via water, not land or air.
 
The wall isn’t going to affect the smuggling of the cartel’s drugs. Over 95% of drugs coming in nowadays come via water, not land or air.

They also come in through legal (but, for the drugs) entries.
 
Make Felito and his pals pay their taxes to build the wall they want. Don's foundation can chip in....oh wait........
 
Isn't shorty a tunnel man?
Where do legal asset seizures usually go?
 
Should have used Iran's previously frozen assets to fight Iranian-sponsored terrorism , for example, instead of retuening it to them for use in financing their attacks in Syria, etc.
To be clear, frozen assets and forfeited assets aren’t the same. The first is property still own by the country/individual, but held by a government, pending resolution. The latter is illegally obtained property confiscated by a government.
 
I hate the idea.

I think it's a horrible idea to allow the gov to profit from seized assets.

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Gotta keep the rubes all riled up.:lamo
 

1980 Conservatives: Tear down that Wall!

2018 Conservatives: Build me a Wall or I’ll hold my breath until my face turns blue!



And people wonder why I quit the GOP...
 
1980 Conservatives: Tear down that Wall!

2018 Conservatives: Build me a Wall or I’ll hold my breath until my face turns blue!



And people wonder why I quit the GOP...

Probably because you didn't realize that wall divided the same country?
 
Ted Cruz has a good idea.

THAT does not happen every day!

Um, no, it's a stupid idea. What a waste of money. Why? This should be required viewing for all Trump supporters:



Do you have any evidence that a wall is a cost effective way of stopping illegal immigration, or drug smuggling? Besides "My bible told me so!" or "My Trump told me so!"
 

Those who continue to purport that walls don't work seem to be contradicted by facts on the ground, so just more political propaganda from the usual, and suspect, sources.
 

You would do better with me if you were willing to pay a little attention to who I am and what I believe, for instance I have never been a Christian and I have been Zen for many decades.

You dont get to substitute your fantasies of what a Trump supporter is for me.

You also so consider not assuming that I am stupider than you are.
 
I don’t know. The wall is pretty tall. It might take a $50 ladder.

There is a fence there now, are they using ladders? Plus, once you use a ladder on the mexican side, how do you get down?
 
Yeah, screw the homeless veterans that need help, instead let's build a wall. :roll: You guys continually show why conservatives should not be in charge of any government branch.
You guys never get tired of changing the subject or deflecting the conversation do you? If Cruz had said "use El Chapo's money to help veterans" you have said "we should use that money to build the wall".
 
There is a fence there now, are they using ladders? Plus, once you use a ladder on the mexican side, how do you get down?

Really? I need to post this real slow......you ..climb.......up.........ladder............straddle..........the...........wall.............and....
.........pull...........the...........ladder..................up................and ............drop.............the.............ladder.............on.........the.............US............side..................and , then, and then........
 
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