Trump considered "interesting" the idea of ​​paying the wall with El Chapo money.

President, Donald Trump, considered today "interesting" the proposal of the senator Ted Cruz fund the border wall with Mexico with the millions of dollars entered by El Chapo through its drug trafficking network.

The idea of ​​Cruz, senator of the State of Texas, plans to attribute to the construction of the border fence the 14 000 million dollars estimated by the public ministry, that El Chapo had won in the years he had exercised his criminal activity arrested in 2016 and extradited to New York.

"All that Ted (Cruz) says is always interesting, it's certainly interesting"Trump answered questions from reporters in the oval office of the White House.

Trump made these remarks to the President of Colombia, Iván Duque, visiting Washington.

"The US judicial system today convicted Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias El Chapo, in his ten counts, and US prosecutors claim $ 14 billion in profits from drug trafficking and drug trafficking. Other badets of El Chapo They should be used to finance our wall to make the border safer, "suggested Cruz.

Then the senator said in another message that "it's time to approve his" Acta El Chapo "to urge his Senate colleagues to take action regarding this crucial bill."

This initiative, also called "Ley Chapo" or "Law ensuring the legal collection of hidden badets to give orders"This would divert the proceeds of drug trafficking collected by cartels to finance border security.

The budget intended to raise the boundary wall, a Trump election promise, was the main reason for the disagreement between Democrats and Republicans, which led to the longest administrative closure in the country's history between December 22nd. and January 25th.

During this administrative blockade, Trump repeatedly threatened to continue building the wall using his power to do so through the national emergency.