validation, and actually, the supreme court has written that in its opinions upholding the civil forfeiture practices based on history. of course congress can reform the laws, and they have actually. in the year 2000 there was the first major reform of u.s. civil forfeiture law. i helped write that law, but it hasn t it did some good, but it hasn t really stopped this civil forfeiture from continuing. yeah, i mean, the law s been reformed, but it hasn t been rolled back, but nonetheless thank you for your work on that law. finally, congress is investigating jamie raskin is the democrat investigating. i want you to take a listen to alexandria o ocasio-cortez and something she noticed about civil asset forfeitures.
what you got on my drink? don t lie. i have nothing, man. what you got? i m broke as a joke. you all some high rollers, and you all broke. that s right. you all remember devo. that is essentially how some law enforcement has been behaving when it comes to asset forfeitures. strolling these streets asking what you got for my pockets, homie. authorities have received $65 billion from average citizens like you and me, that s billion with a b. they only need to suspect you of a crime to snatch property and money and even law-abiding
ignored what has been happening over and over again. you mention the human trafficking and the drugs. it s coming to our home towns and our community. but even more importantly, this president looked in the face of angel moms and dads and said i m going to deal with this. it was a personal promise to so many families who lost loved ones because of the open border. some are criticizing him. i am not. we had our chance. we should have put it before him and we didn t. and yet we couldn t even come up with a compromise, a reasonable compromise of 2.5 to $3 billion to get started. so the president did the right thing here. let s talk about the pots of money from which he ll start building the border. steel slats. a wall is out of the question it seems. there are different pots of money that seized assets. asset forfeitures.
ignored what has been happening over and over again. you mention the human trafficking and the drugs. it s coming to our home towns and our community. but even more importantly, this president looked in the face of angel moms and dads and said i m going to deal with this. it was a personal promise to so many families who lost loved ones because of the open border. some are criticizing him. i am not. we had our chance. we should have put it before him and we didn t. and yet we couldn t even come up with a compromise, a reasonable compromise of 2.5 to $3 billion to get started. so the president did the right thing here. let s talk about the pots of money from which he ll start building the border. steel slats. a wall is out of the question it seems. there are different pots of money that seized assets. asset forfeitures.
ignored what has been happening over and over again. you mention the human trafficking and the drugs. it s coming to our home towns and our community. but even more importantly, this president looked in the face of angel moms and dads and said i m going to deal with this. it was a personal promise to so many families who lost loved ones because of the open border. some are criticizing him. i am not. we had our chance. we should have put it before him and we didn t. and yet we couldn t even come up with a compromise, a reasonable compromise of 2.5 to $3 billion to get started. so the president did the right thing here. let s talk about the pots of money from which he ll start building the border. steel slats. a wall is out of the question it seems. there are different pots of money that seized assets. asset forfeitures.