Trump's help, Sarah Sanders, ridiculed for suggesting that the Mexican border wall would have stopped El Chapo

White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has been criticized for hinting that a border wall would have prevented Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman from importing drugs into the United States .

Sanders hinted on Monday that the Mexican drug chief had been convicted – convicted of 10 counts of drug trafficking by a US court – and proved that the threat posed by cartels south of the border was "real".

Top Trump administration official tweeted, "El Chapo's reign of terror is over. He will spend the rest of his life in a maximum security prison. The threat of violent drug cartels is real – we need to secure our border. "

Yet some commentators have ridiculed his attempt to link the lawsuit to the border wall issue, pointing out that Guzman had built underground tunnels and sent drugs to the United States – methods that a wall would not do Stop.

According to other social media, his arrest was not the result of a hard boundary, but of cooperation between US and Mexican authorities. The cartel official was arrested in Los Mochis, in the state of Sinaloa in 2016, and extradited to be tried in Brooklyn, New York.

Despite objections to Ms. Sanders' tweet, Senator Ted Cruz also tried to link Guzman to the border wall program.

The Republican legislator drafted a law entitled "EL CHAPO Law on Guaranteeing the Legal Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Hidden Goods", which would direct funds confiscated by convicted drug lords to "property" at the border".

Mr. Cruz tweeted: "I urge my Senate colleagues to act quickly for this crucial legislation."

Legislators tentatively agreed on Monday night an agreement that would provide nearly $ 1.4 billion (£ 1.1 billion) for border protection and maintain government funding for the remainder of the fiscal year, which will end September 30th.

The agreement would allow the creation of new fences over a distance of 55 miles – built with the help of existing designs such as metal battens – but much less than the 215 miles requested by the White House in December . The fence would be built in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.

Full details should not be published until Wednesday. But Republican leaders urged Mr Trump to accept the deal.

At the same time, the experts predicted that Guzman would be sent to a "supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado, known as ADX, a facility so dark and so remote that it was nicknamed "Alcatraz". Rockies ".

"El Chapo is a perfect fit for the bill," said Cameron Lindsay, a retired guard at the head of three federal prisons. "I would be absolutely shocked if it is not sent to the ADX."

Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 9/9 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, and Oklahoma City terrorist accomplice Terry Nichols are among the prison inmates.

Additional reports by agencies

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