.....the drug cartels. Sorta kinda, but yeah. This is ONE of the various ideas being thrown around. Read the exclusive and leave your beautiful comments below.
Exclusive: Trump Camp Mulls Using Seized Cartel Assets to Pay for Wall
The Mexican Drug Cartels are evil, they have a modus operandi sort of like ISIS, with the beheadings and burning people alive, I watched a nauseating documentary about them.
Mexico is a backward patch of land, who's leaders don't even have the testicles to smash the drug cartels, or probably the Mexican Government from the President on down are on the payroll of the Drug Cartels.
Seizing the assets is a good idea, also sanctions like those Obama has on Venezuela would be an option, cripple the Mexican's into paying for a wall to keep their savages out of your nation.
Very hard to break an army which is being financed and armed by the US...
Drugs sold in the US pays for that army.
Guns smuggled into Mexico are arming them.
If the US was actually serious about cutting out illegal immirgrants they would take steps to make Mexico(and other central American countries) a safer place to live. How about taking steps to stop the illegal drug trade and making guns harder to export to buy in the quanities and quality to be used by a private army....
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Smuggling of firearms
Firearms are not legally available for sale in Mexico, so drug cartels must smuggle them through the U.S. or Guatemalan borders, or by sea. Many firearms are acquired in U.S. by cartel members through straw purchases and then smuggled to Mexico a few at a time.
The most common smuggled firearms include AR-15 and AK-47 type rifles, FN 5.7 caliber semi-automatic pistols and a variety of .50 caliber rifles and machine guns. 30% of AK-47 assault rifles seized have been modified to select fire weapons, effectively creating assault rifles for use by the cartels.
Also, there are multiple reports of grenade launchers being used against security forces, and at least twelve M4 Carbines with M203 grenade launchers have been confiscated. It was believed that some of these high power weapons and related accessories were stolen from U.S. military bases.
However, most military grade weapons such as grenades and light anti-tank rockets are acquired by the cartels through the huge supply of arms left over from the wars in Central America and Asia.
Tracing
An overwhelming majority of confiscated guns (90%) that are traced actually originated in the United States. The ATF has reportedly traced 22,848 guns smuggled into Mexico from the United States since 2005, and it showed that between 2005 and 2008, Texas, Arizona and California are the three most prolific source states, respectively, for firearms illegally trafficked to Mexico.
About 55% of guns smuggled from U.S. are assault rifles. Mexican officials only submitted 32% of the guns they seized to the ATF for tracing, and less than half of those weapons had serial numbers. Overall, 83% of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced.
Mexican cartels often pay U.S. citizens to purchase assault rifles or other guns at gun shops or gun shows, then sell them to a cartel representative.
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Borderland Beat: Mexican Drug War