(ProsperNews.net) – A Republican Congressman is proposing using seized funds from drug cartels to build a wall along the southern border. Rep. Randy Feenstra from Iowa has created the Build the Wall and Fight Fentanyl Act which allows for assets of drug gangs to be seized and separated into two distinct funds – the “Southern Border Wall Fulfilment Fund” and the “Combating the Fentanyl Epidemic Fund.”
Under the legislation, the two funds would be administered by the Department of Homeland Security and would include cash and other assets confiscated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection.
The fentanyl fund would then go on to provide resources to local law enforcement agencies, rehabilitation programs, and drug-prevention organizations. The wall fund would restart the border blockade that the Trump administration began but President Biden discontinued.
Rep. Feenstra said, “Criminal drug traffickers have smuggled enough fentanyl into our country to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States, and tragically, too many families know the pain of losing a loved one to this deadly crisis. We must fight fire with fire.”
Feenstra has the backing of Floridian Rep. Greg Steube who said the fentanyl crisis in America is directly linked to the leaking border with Mexico. He said the Biden administration has failed to tackle either the drug problem or the open border that facilitates it.
Fentanyl is a lethal concoction that is made in South America using chemicals imported from China. It is one of the most deadly drugs ever to hit American streets and is said to be several times more potent than heroin or morphine.
GOP Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has called for lethal force against fentanyl smugglers. DeSantis said he would declare a national emergency on day one of his Presidency and anyone caught trafficking fentanyl would be “stone cold dead.”
Border Patrol agents in 2022 seized over 98,000 pounds of fentanyl.
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