Immigration

Make ‘El Chapo’ pay for the wall, say Republicans

By Pete Kasperowicz
Published January 24, 2019 1:43pm ET
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Make ‘El Chapo’ pay for the wall, say Republicans
FILE - This Feb. 22, 2014 file photo shows Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, being escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City following his capture overnight in the beach resort town of Mazatlan. Ten years after it began, Mexico’s drug war has left some major drug cartels splintered and many of the old-line capos in jail, but it has done little to reduce the amount of crime or violence in Mexico’s roughest regions. | (Eduardo Verdugo/AP)

More than a dozen House Republicans proposed a bill this week that would let the Trump administration use billions of dollars worth of assets seized from drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to build the southern border wall.

President Trump has been battling Democrats for weeks to secure $5.7 billion in funds to expand the border wall, a fight that has led to a government shutdown for five weeks.

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