Sen. Cruz’ EL CHAPO Act is sensible which is why it may die in D.C.

Once again Senator Ted Cruz has it right. When asked about his El CHAPO Act, Sen. Cruz described the bill as just, saying, “It is only right that those ill-gotten gains go to fixing the problems and stopping the next Narco traffickers.”

Senator Cruz went on to say, during an appearance on Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream:

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz

“We need to vote on it. A number of months ago when we were starting to really vigorously debate the border wall and Democrats were going on and on saying that it was too expensive, that they didn’t want to spend money on it. […] I happened to be reading at the time that the estimates to build a robust wall at the time were between 14 and $20 billion. At the same time, I read that the Department of Justice estimates of the global worth of El Chapo’s criminal network worldwide were roughly $14 billion.

“There is a natural and elegant symmetry that suggested itself. So I filed the EL CHAPO Act, which says all money criminally forfeited from El Chapo and from any other drug lord shall be used for border security and to build the wall. And that means we can do this without spending even a penny of taxpayer money, but not only that: there is a justice to it.

“Those billions that El Chapo has were made trafficking illegally across the U.S. border, bringing narcotics across the border. And it is only right that those ill-gotten gains go to fixing the problems and stopping the next Narco traffickers.”

The problem with sensible ideas, especially sensible ideas that save taxpayers’ money, is that the swamp of the District of Columbia is where those ideas go to die.

Let’s hope Senator Cruz can get some momentum with the EL CHAPO Act.