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.
It is legislation introduced by Sen.Ted Cruz of Texas last year -- the Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order (E.L.C.H.A.P.O.) Actwhich would use fund confiscated from drug dealers like El Chapo and traffickers to pay for border security. As Cruz explained after introducing his bill in April of 2017:
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.”
Some might dismiss this idea as a campaign gimmick intended to help Cruz in his tough 2018 reelection bid, but it is an idea whose time has definitely come. El Chapo is responsible for many crimes against his people and ours, including the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry using a weapon supplied by presidential wannabe and former Obama AG Eric Holder:
We assume Holder reads the morning paper and has heard of the 40 assault weapons illegally purchased under the Phoenix ATF's Fast and Furious operation that somehow wound up in the home of Sinaloa cartel enforcer Torres "the Jaguar" Marrufo. If he has, we suspect his reaction might have been akin to that of another famous sitcom character, Steve Urkel: "Did I do that?"This is no sitcom, but rather a major tragedy -- and a major crime. Marrufo is the enforcer for Sinaloa Cartel chieftain Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed at the hands of an illegal immigrant working for the Sinaloa cartel just 10 miles from the Mexico border near Nogales, Ariz.
Among the weapons Obama and Holder supplied El Chapo with under Fast and Furious was a .50-caliber rifle liberals like to rail against: As Fox News reportedabout Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo”:
A .50-caliber rifle found at Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman’s hideout in Mexico was funneled through the gun-smuggling investigation known as Fast and Furious, sources confirmed Tuesday to Fox News.A .50-caliber is a massive rifle that can stop a car or, as it was intended, take down a helicopter…Federal law enforcement sources told Fox News that ‘El Chapo’ would put his guardsmen on hilltops to be on guard for Mexican police helicopters that would fly through valleys conducting raids. The sole purpose of the guardsmen would be to shoot down those helicopters, sources said.
Wisconsin Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner has proposed similar legislation in the House to spend money seized from the drug cartels to fund a border wall:
"This is a way to fulfill the president's desire to have Mexico pay for the wall," Sensenbrenner, a member of the Judiciary Committee, told the Washington Examiner. "Having the money seized from Mexican drug cartels would mean that the bad Mexicans would end up paying for the wall, and the bad Mexicans have been terrorizing the good Mexicans with crime and kidnappings and murders within Mexico itself."…
"The [Drug Enforcement Agency] has estimated that the gross receipts of the Mexican drug trade or somewhere between $19-$29 billion a year," he said. "We don't have to be 100 percent efficient to get the the money we need to completely pay for the wall relatively quickly."
Contrary to claims by Sen. Chuck Schumer that border walls are ineffective, the empirical evidence shows that border walls work and no place is better proof than the Yuma sector in Arizona:
For years, Yuma sector was besieged by chaos as a nearly unending flood of migrants and drugs poured across our border. Even as agents were arresting on average 800 illegal aliens a day, we were still unable to stop the thousands of trucks filled with drugs and humans that quickly crossed a vanishing point and dispersed into communities all across the country…The bipartisan Secure Fence Act of 2006 -- supported by then-Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and others -- mandated the construction of hundreds of additional miles of secure fencing and infrastructure investments. Yuma sector was one of the first areas to receive infrastructure investments.We built new infrastructure along the border east and west of theSan Luis Arizona Port of Entry in 2006. The existing fence was quickly lengthened, and we added second and third layers to that fencing in urban areas. Lighting, roads and increased surveillance were added to aid agents patrolling the border.Although there is still work to do, the border in Yuma sector today is more secure because of this investment.
Trump was initially able to begin immediate construction of the border wall and open up bidding for contracts thanks to the 2006 measure signed into law by President George W. Bush and supported by Democrats including then-senators Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton:
Democrats are already grumbling about Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, though Barack Obama and other leaders in their party voted not so long ago for George W. Bush’s proposal to build a major wall on the border with Mexico.Bush signed the proposal into law in 2006, after it was passed by huge bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate. The law ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to construct about 700 miles of fencing along the southern border, and authorized the addition of lights and cameras and sensors to enhance security. The law explicitly required the wall to be constructed of “at least two layers of reinforced fencing.”Two-thirds of the Republican-led House approved the bill, including 64 Democrats, and 80 of 100 senators approved the bill in the Senate.
The Secure Fence Act of 2006 required the construction of 700 miles of new border fence along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. “The Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide for at least two layers of reinforced fencing, the installation of additional physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras and sensors…” the act said.
It was to be modeled on the success of the border barriers in the San Diego sector of the U.S. border. The operative word was “secure”. Instead of this two-layer secure fence what has been built consists of flimsy pedestrian fencing or vehicle fencing consisting of posts people can slither through.
The two-tier fence in San Diego runs 14 miles along the border with Tijuana, Mexico. The first layer is a high steel fence, with an inner high anti-climb fence with a no-man’s land in between. It has been amazingly effective. According to a 2005 report by the Congressional Research Service, illegal alien apprehensions in the San Diego sector dropped from 202,000 in 1992 to 9,000 in 2004.
Cameras and sensors played a part, but the emphasis was on physical barriers and roads that were patrolled by real live border guards, not by robots. Then in 2006, the Democrats took back Congress and, in 2008, the White House.
They saw in unrestricted immigration a means to fundamentally transform the demographics of America and its political landscape. A wave of what some called “undocumented Democrats” would be allowed to flood across the borderas ICE was told not to enforce the law. Former border state governor Janet Napolitano, who became DHS secretary, reportedly once said: “You show me a 50-foot fence and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder at the border,” The rest, as they say, is history.
But the consequences of unrestricted illegal immigration soon became too big to ignore and with a candidate willing to touch the new third rail of American politics, border security, a political movement chanting “build the wall” swept Trump into power.
If President Trump compromises the wall into nonexistence, he risks his campaign mantra “build the wall” becoming his “read my lips” ticket to a single term. In Yuma and San Diego fences and walls worked. So will Trump’s wall. Build the wall and make the likes of El Chapo pay for it.
Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared inInvestor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the ChicagoSun-Times among other publications.
This will
crack you up!
Mexican
Presidents Deny They Took Bribes from El Chapo
14 Nov 201898
Two former Mexican presidents publicly denied
taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. The statements came after the legal
defense for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera made contrary claims this week.
The drug lord is facing several
money laundering and drug trafficking charges at a federal trial in New York.
In his opening statement, defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman spoke of bribes
“including the very top, the current president of Mexico and the former.”
Soon after the statements became
public, Mexico’s government issued a statement denying the allegations. Eduardo
Sanchez, the spokesman for current Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said
the statements were false and “defamatory.”
El
gobierno de @EPN persiguió, capturó y extraditó al
criminal Joaquín Guzmán Loera. Las afirmaciones atribuidas a su abogado son
completamente falsas y difamatorias
Former Mexican President Felipe
Calderon took to social media to personally deny the allegations, claiming that
neither El Chapo or the Sinaloa Cartel paid him bribes.
Son
absolutamente falsas y temerarias las afirmaciones que se dice realizó el
abogado de Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán. Ni él, ni el cártel de Sinaloa ni ningún
otro realizó pagos a mi persona.
Under Guzman’s leadership, the Sinaloa
Cartel became the largest drug trafficking organization in the world with
influence in every major U.S. city.
The allegations against Pena Nieto
are not new. In 2016, Breitbart News reported on an investigation by Mexican journalists which revealed how Juarez Cartel
operators funneled money into the 2012 presidential campaign. The investigation
was carried out by Mexican award-winning journalist Carmen Aristegui and her team. The subsequent scandal became known as “Monexgate”
for the cash cards that were given out during Peña Nieto’s campaign. The
allegations against Pena Nieto went largely unreported by U.S. news outlets.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an
award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel
Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can
follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing
director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel
Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him
on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Mexico: Where Is Your Shame?
At a demonstration Wednesday in
Mexico City against Arizona's law.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Immigration: Mexico's government
gloated triumphantly after a federal judge's injunction blocked Arizona's
immigration law. But it's no victory for Mexico. In fact, Mexico's leaders
ought to be mortified.
As radical immigration activists
crowed with glee and the Obama administration claimed victory, Mexico's
government joined the applause.
Calling Judge Susan Bolton's
injunction Wednesday "a step in the right direction," Mexican Foreign
Minister Patricia Espinosa declared: "The government of Mexico would like
to express its recognition for the determination demonstrated by the federal
government of the United States and the actions of the civil organizations that
organized lawsuits against the SB 1070 law."
In reality, it ought to be ashamed.
Supposedly framed as an issue of federal power pre-empting state power, it's
hardly Mexico's business. But Mexico made a big show of saying its interest was
in protecting its nationals from the dreadful racism of Arizona that its own citizens,
curiously enough, keep fleeing to.
Espinosa said her government was busy
collecting data on civil rights violations and her department had issued an
all-out travel warning to Mexican nationals about Arizona.
That's where Mexico's hypocrisy is just
too much.
First, Mexico encourages illegal
immigration to the U.S. Oh, it says it doesn't, but it prints comic book guides
for would-be illegal immigrants and provides ID cards for illegals once they
get here. In Arizona alone, Mexico keeps five consulates busy.
That's not out of love for its
own citizens, but because Mexicans send cash back to Mexico that helps finance
the government.
Instead of selling its wasteful state-owned oil company or
getting rid of red tape to create jobs in Mexico, Mexico spends the hard
currency from remittances. It fails to look at why its citizens leave.
According to the Heritage
Foundation-Wall Street Journal 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, Mexico's big
problem is — no shock — government corruption, where it ranks below the world
average.
That's where Mexico's cartels come in.
Mexico's encouragement of illegal
immigration undercuts its valiant war against its smuggling cartels. The
cartels' prowess and firepower have made them the only ones who can smuggle
effectively across the border. U.S. law enforcers say they now control
human-smuggling on our southern border.
Feed them immigrants and they grow
more cash-rich — and right now, immigrant smuggling is about a third of the
cartels' income.
Mass graves and car bombings are signs
of criminal organizations getting bigger, and more powerful. Juarez, which has
lost 5,000 people this year, bleeds because cartels fight over not just who
gets the drug routes, but who gets the illegal-immigrant smuggling routes, too.
Aside from the cartel mayhem in
Mexico, the bodies are piling up in the Arizona desert and U.S. Border Patrol
rescues of abandoned illegals left to die have risen.
It's not the desert's fault,
and it's certainly not Uncle Sam's fault, as activists claim. No, it's the fact
that Mexicans are encouraged to emigrate. Criminal cartels don't fear
abandoning their human cargo in the desert, as long as Mexico does nothing and
blames Uncle Sam.
Hearing Mexico's government now cheer
the Arizona ruling, which will only encourage more illegal immigration, gives
the country's regime a pretty inhuman face.
If Mexico had any decency, it would
do all it could to discourage illegal immigration and keep a respectful silence
about Arizona.
It needs U.S. support for its war on
cartels. Instead of insulting American citizens, Mexico should confront
directly the reasons why its people are so desperate to leave, and do all in
its power to destroy the cartels that are slowly killing the nation. That
includes defunding the murderous gangs by halting illegal immigration.
Mexican Judge Denies Bond for Cartel Boss Wanted in Texas
18 Nov 201822
2:45
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – A Mexican federal judge has ruled against the
release of a recently captured cartel boss. The man is wanted by U.S.
authorities in connection to a high-profile cartel-execution near Dallas.
In
a court hearing, a federal judge in Monterrey ruled against releasing Luis
Lauro “La Mora or La China” Ramirez Bautista. He ordered that he be held
without bond until further hearings. Officials removed the wanted drug boss to
the Cadereyta state prison. As Breitbart News first reported in an exclusive
article, detectives with the Nuevo Leon’s State Investigations Agency
arrested Ramirez Bautista at a checkpoint after
the wanted drug lord left a bar near the Barrio Antiguo neighborhood in
Monterrey.
Prior to his arrest, Ramirez
Bautista allegedly attempted to run over a law enforcement official at the
checkpoint and then resisted the arrest. During the arrest, authorities seized
a.38o caliber handgun carried by the wanted drug lord.
The
man known as La Mora is a key boss with a criminal organization that once
belonged to the Beltran Leyva Cartel but has since branched off and become
independent and highly dangerous. Under orders from his boss Rodolfo “El Gato”
Villarreal, Ramirez Bautista is believed to have played a role in helping
mastermind the 2013 murder of Gulf Cartel attorney Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa.
As Breitbart News reported, Guerrero Chapa was gunned
down in the ritzy Dallas suburb of Southlake after a long-term surveillance
operation. The murder was personal in nature since Ramirez Bautista’s boss El
Gato blamed Guerrero Chapa for the murder of his father.
Ramirez Bautista is wanted by U.S.
authorities in the ongoing case against Villarreal and federal authorities had
added him to a most wanted list of fugitive cartel bosses in the Texas border
region.
The ruling by the judge denying bond for Ramirez Bautista comes as a surprise since in recent months, as Breitbart News has reported, federal judges in Mexico have been releasing an alarming number of cartel bosses by ruling their arrests as illegal or alleging some other bureaucratic error. The man known as La Mora had been arrested in 2017. However, a Mexican federal judge ruled at the time that the raid that led to his capture was illegal and ordered his release.
Soon
after the most recent arrest, gunmen from El Gato’s criminal organization
murdered 34-year-old Santiago Aaron Urbina Arellano. This man managed Bar
Ambria, where Ramirez Bautista visited prior to his arrest. It is believed that
the gunmen targeted the bar manager suspecting that he may have tipped off law
enforcement.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas
traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to
recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels
silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the
hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf
Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both
English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by
Tony Aranda from Nuevo Leon.
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