Freedom Caucus chairman: use asset forfeiture to fund the wall

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Freedom Caucus chairman supporting asset forfeiture or declaration of national emergency to fund the border wall:

Link to tweet

[J_William_Ryan]

1. Such is the reprehensible right.

If only conservatives would work this hard to find creative ways to fund healthcare and education…

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. Snap.

Negotiating in good faith....oh boy. See my eyes a rollin'.

[shanny]

2. still has to be appropriated, you idjit

this guy is in government?

[brush]

5. Yeah, whose assets are they gonna seized worth 25 billion for a wall?

How do these dummies get elected?

[DBoon]

3. Nothing says freedom like seizing assets of those not convicted of a crime

and using those assets to prevent free movement of people.

"Freedom Caucus" my ass

[safeinOhio]

6. Yes and they could triple the take by

selling the drugs and women.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. DOJ hiring attorneys to handle property seizures for border wall

Hat tip, Joe.My.God:

DOJ Seeks Attorneys To Tackle Border Property Seizures
January 18, 2019

DOJ hiring attorneys to handle property seizures for border wall

By TED HESSON 01/17/2019 02:01 PM EST

The Justice Department placed an online job posting for a pair of attorneys to tackle border wall litigation in South Texas — a sign of coming property seizures and other legal controversies that President Donald Trump anticipates if he plows ahead with his signature project.

Trump has demanded that Congress provide $5.7 billion to build more than 200 miles of new and replacement barriers along the border. But those efforts will likely run into opposition from local landowners, environmentalists and Native American tribes.
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The two advertised jobs, based in McAllen and Brownsville, will pay between $53,062 and $138,790, according to a posting to a federal jobs website.

The ideal candidates for the positions “will have at least four years of civil litigation experience [dealing with] land condemnation cases, oil and gas disputes, and real estate matters,” the posting reads. "Spanish language proficiency is helpful," the ad says, "but not required."

The attorneys likely will deal with eminent domain property seizures and quarrels with landowners over what their land is worth, according to Chris Rickerd, the American Civil Liberties Union’s senior policy counsel on border and immigration issues.
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[Panich52]

8. What does govt usually do with these funds?

And I wonder how they might be affected by recent SCOTUS ruling sort of on asset forfeiture — returned heroin dealer's SUV based on Constitutional "excessive fines" prohibition.
https://democraticunderground.com/10142270537