Some of the drugs were hidden in passenger cars, concealed in trucks in cans of jalapeños or stashed in tanker trains with ordinary loads of cooking oil. Others were sent beneath the border in sophisticated tunnels.
The 10 weeks of testimony at the trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, have revealed that his innovative smuggling network typically went through legal checkpoints — not isolated stretches of the border where a wall might be an obstacle.
Though Mr. Trump has primarily pitched his border wall as a way to stop illegal immigration, he has recently suggested that it would also help allay the cross-border drug trade.
“If we build a powerful and fully designed see-through steel barrier on our southern border, the crime rate and drug problem in our country would be quickly and greatly reduced,” he said on Saturday. “Some say it could be cut in half.”
He added, “We can stop heroin.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/nyregion/el-chapo-trial-border-wall.html
TRUMP HAS UNQUESTIONABLY BEEN TOLD ALL THIS SO WHY IS THE GOVT CLOSED?
FOR NO DAMNED GOOD REASON.
The 10 weeks of testimony at the trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, have revealed that his innovative smuggling network typically went through legal checkpoints — not isolated stretches of the border where a wall might be an obstacle.
Though Mr. Trump has primarily pitched his border wall as a way to stop illegal immigration, he has recently suggested that it would also help allay the cross-border drug trade.
“If we build a powerful and fully designed see-through steel barrier on our southern border, the crime rate and drug problem in our country would be quickly and greatly reduced,” he said on Saturday. “Some say it could be cut in half.”
He added, “We can stop heroin.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/nyregion/el-chapo-trial-border-wall.html
TRUMP HAS UNQUESTIONABLY BEEN TOLD ALL THIS SO WHY IS THE GOVT CLOSED?
FOR NO DAMNED GOOD REASON.
