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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: corbe on February 18, 2019, 03:37:19 am

Title: El Chapo’s Attorney to Ted Cruz: ‘Ludicrous’ to Suggest Drug Kingpin Would Fund Wall
Post by: corbe on February 18, 2019, 03:37:19 am

El Chapo’s Attorney to Ted Cruz: ‘Ludicrous’ to Suggest Drug Kingpin Would Fund Wall

by KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ
17 Feb 2019

The attorney for convicted drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman shot back at Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) idea to make his client pay for the wall along the U.S. southern border with Mexico, calling it “ludicrous.”

“Sen. Cruz surely knows that the government has seized none — not a penny — of Mr. Guzman’s assets so getting him to pay for the wall is ludicrous,” Guzman’s attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, told CNN.

“There’s a better chance of Mr. Cruz paying for the wall,” he added.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/17/el-chapos-attorney-ted-cruz-ludicrous-to-suggest-drug-kingpin-would-fund-wall/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/17/el-chapos-attorney-ted-cruz-ludicrous-to-suggest-drug-kingpin-would-fund-wall/)

Title: Re: El Chapo’s Attorney to Ted Cruz: ‘Ludicrous’ to Suggest Drug Kingpin Would Fund Wall
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 18, 2019, 05:26:22 am

Touched a nerve, eh?  You go,Ted.

Title: Re: El Chapo’s Attorney to Ted Cruz: ‘Ludicrous’ to Suggest Drug Kingpin Would Fund Wall
Post by: TomSea on February 18, 2019, 08:01:26 am

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Where will the $8bn come from?

    $1.4bn from the agreed budget
    $600m from cash and assets seized from drug traffickers
    $2.5bn from a defence department anti-drug trafficking fund
    $3.5bn reallocated from military construction projects

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47258779 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47258779)

Narco-money would already be used on the wall. Might double-check the stats, it's not a new idea.