The Hill : reported that Cruz: Seize money from drug lords to fund border wall
Sen. Ted Cruz Ted CruzCruz: Seize money from drug lords to fund border wall There's a new frontier in space exploration, but will Trump be on board? Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner James SensenbrennerCruz: Seize money from drug lords to fund border wall GOP rep defends online privacy rollback: 'Nobody has got to use the internet' GOP rep: Funds from Mexican cartels can pay for border wall MORE (R-Wis.) introduced similar legislation in February, the BuildWall Act, which would allow money forfeited from drug traffickers to improve border security, including a wall. Cruz's bill comes as the White House pushes for funding to begin work on the border wall. Georgia campaigns keep up pressure ahead of runoff vote MORE (R-Texas) is introducing a bill to allow assets seized from drug lords, like Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, to fund President Trump's proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The charges allege that Guzman led a continuing criminal enterprise responsible for drug trafficking and conspiracy between 1989 and 2014.
The image of addiction smugglers who run drugs across remote stretches of the Southwest border is largely a fiction, according to drug policy experts. Drugs that flow across the Southwest border, like heroin, are primarily transported through existing border checkpoints via cars and trucks. Beyond the ports of entry issue, the shortcomings of a wall as an anti-drug strategy are legion. Mexican drug cartels "transport the bulk of their drugs over the Southwest border through ports of entry (POEs) using passenger vehicles or tractor trailers," the DEA writes in its 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment. "If the wall creates a heroin shortage, traffickers will adulterate remaining supplies of heroin with even more fentanyl," Tree says.
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The No. 1 reason why Trump's wall won't fix the drug problem
The image of addiction smugglers who run drugs across remote stretches of the Southwest border is largely a fiction, according to drug policy experts. Drugs that flow across the Southwest border, like heroin, are primarily transported through existing border checkpoints via cars and trucks. Beyond the ports of entry issue, the shortcomings of a wall as an anti-drug strategy are legion. Mexican drug cartels "transport the bulk of their drugs over the Southwest border through ports of entry (POEs) using passenger vehicles or tractor trailers," the DEA writes in its 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment. "If the wall creates a heroin shortage, traffickers will adulterate remaining supplies of heroin with even more fentanyl," Tree says.
EL CHAPO Act proposes funding Trump wall with cash from drug lord
Sen. Ted Cruz has proposed legislation to fund President Trump's desired border wall with Mexico by seizing profits from notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. The EL CHAPO Act seeks to pay for the barrier with $14 billion from the Mexican gangster currently awaiting his federal trial in Brooklyn, the conservative Texan said Tuesday. Trump backs off threat to shut down government over border wallCruz said that $14 billion from Guzman could go to help defend the U.S. against drug cartels. It could be a wall fit for a kingpin. A draft of Cruz's bill, dubbed the Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order Act, says that the practice could extend beyond the 60-year-old Guzman to other drug cartel members.collected by :Lucy William
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