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Payment for the border wall

Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
columbus said:
If the USA government manages to confiscate money from drug cartels, I am all about that. More is better, I hate those people.
But once we get it, the money isn't Mexican any more. It's USA fundage which we could use to prosecute criminal employers or pay down the Bush debt or anything else.
It is not Mexico's money once it's our money.
Tom
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Even then, El Chapo loosing funds that would, hypothetically, be going towards funding the wall is not Mexico paying for the wall, as El Chapo's money is not Mexico's money, and that is Mexico having absolutely nothing to do with funding the wall.
 
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habiru

Active Member
columbus said:
If the USA government manages to confiscate money from drug cartels, I am all about that. More is better, I hate those people.
But once we get it, the money isn't Mexican any more. It's USA fundage which we could use to prosecute criminal employers or pay down the Bush debt or anything else.
It is not Mexico's money once it's our money.
Tom
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The drugs that are seized are usually destroyed, but the cash and property seized can ultimately end up being used by the police departments that seized it.

In 1989, the state of Connecticut enacted the Drug Asset Forfeiture Law, which means 70 percent of every successful forfeiture goes back to state and local police, 20 percent goes to the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services for to fund drug treatment programs, and the remaining 10 percent helps underwrite the cost of prosecuting such cases. What happens to all the money seized in drug busts?

Under federal law and according to the law in many states, law enforcement officials are permitted to keep drug money seized during raids to supplement their departments' revenues. When multiple departments work together on a raid, each is awarded a percentage of the money seized. This applies to the FBI as well as state, county and city police
According to the WSFB television news station in Connecticut, several police departments in its state have used drug money to purchase equipment, including gas masks, computer equipment and even vehicles. The news station added, however, that funds aren't appropriated to law enforcement until suspects are convicted and even then, only if the judge in a particular case orders funds forfeited to police.

National Public Radio reports the amount of money United States law enforcement agencies were able to keep from raids of Mexican drug cartels on domestic soil tripled within a four-year period. While the federal government views the practice of allowing police to keep a portion of the drug money they seize as an incentive to arrest drug traffickers, critics of the practice say it encourages police to pursue cash and not the drugs themselves, thereby rendering the program ineffectual, according to the NPR report. At least four Texas police task forces are funded exclusively by money seized from suspected drug dealers. What happens to confiscated drug money?


Well by donating it for a cause, like building the wall, is to prevent anymore problems for both sides. No more drugs coming in and no more accusing of the Law enforcement of looking forward for their rewards.


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columbus

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habiru said:
Well by donating it for a cause, like building the wall, is to prevent anymore problems for both sides. No more drugs coming in and no more accusing of the Law enforcement of looking forward for their rewards.
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The fact remains that we can use the money anyway we want to. This is no different from borrowing it. The money is already ours after we seize it. It isn't Mexican money any more. It's just a shell game and breaking a signature campaign promise before he even gets into office.:rolleyes:
Tom
 
oldbadger

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Brickjectivity said:
He promised a wall, so he has to deliver. China built a wall, and so can the USA. Ours will just be a little bit thinner in places. Maybe we could hire China to build it.
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They say the Great Wall took over a thousand years to build.
Maybe it'll take that long in the US?
 
oldbadger

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
And on the Blast of the Trumpets, those walls of Jericho came tumbling down.

Now therre's got to be a new verse coming along, quite soon. :)
 
Brickjectivity

Brickjectivity

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oldbadger said:
Over here we've got Hadrian's Wall, and Fossa's Dyke, and those Cornish folks probably dug some ditches too.

What will this new Wall be called? :)
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'Great Wall' is taken. Anyway I was thinking that instead of making the Mexicans pay for it we could make college students pay for it, because its easier to collect from them. We're building it for future generations after all, so they should pay for it.
 
McBell

McBell

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Watchmen said:
Oh, it very well might be. What's unimaginative is that they can't understand there may be alternative ways to get Mexico to pay for the wall other than by outright payment up front. How about trade embargoes, using confiscated drug money, other fees, penalties etc.
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What purpose does the wall serve?
It will not keep out groups of Mexicans using tunnels to cross the border.
 
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