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BREAKING: President Trump considering declaring a national emergency to circumvent congressional approval to allocate funds for border wall:
“We can call a national emergency because of the security of our country... I haven’t done it, I may do it.”
originally posted by: Masterjaden
a reply to: Sookiechacha
That's the most idiotic piece of tripe I've seen.
Or constitution calls for military to be used to protect our border much more than it does to fight wars half way across the world.
He absolutely should declare a national emergency. It has been a national emergency for decades now and no one has done Jack about it. Enough is enough, it's time to do something about it.
Jaden
Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal. Much of the Wall has already been fully renovated or built. We have done a lot of work. $5.6 Billion Dollars that House has approved is very little in comparison to the benefits of National Security. Quick payback!
How can it be considered a national emergency when the world still spins, the sky has not fallen, and people still go about there daily business the same as any other day?
originally posted by: amazing
It's not a national emergency. We've had about the same issues with the southern border for decades and decades. Now all of a sudden it's a national emergency because someone made a campaign promise.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: Sookiechacha
Let me be clear. The present policies of the DNC (no physical barrier, no limits on asylum, no vetting of immigrants, legal challenges to all deportation, official protection of illegal aliens, catch and release) are absolutely in favor of open borders.
TheRedneck
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: amazing
It's not a national emergency. We've had about the same issues with the southern border for decades and decades. Now all of a sudden it's a national emergency because someone made a campaign promise.
One person's "emergency" is another person's "campaign promise". Fortunately for the thousands of families forever hurt by illegal aliens and drugs coming across that border, the person WHO MATTERS, Donald Trump, sees it as an emergency.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: Sookiechacha
Let me be clear. The present policies of the DNC (no physical barrier, no limits on asylum, no vetting of immigrants, legal challenges to all deportation, official protection of illegal aliens, catch and release) are absolutely in favor of open borders.
TheRedneck
Citation please! When did the Dems declare their objection to The Secure Fence Act? When did the Dems call to eliminate our international treaty agreements?
The fence is routinely climbed or otherwise circumvented.[9] The GAO reported in 2017 that both pedestrian and vehicle barriers have been defeated by various methods, including using ramps to drive vehicles "up and over" vehicle fencing in the sector; scaling, jumping over, or breaching pedestrian fencing; burrowing or tunneling underground; and even using small aircraft.
New York Times op-ed writer Lawrence Downes wrote in 2013: "A climber with a rope can hop it in less than half a minute. ... Smugglers with jackhammers tunnel under it.
They throw drugs and rocks over it.
The fence is breached not just by sunlight and shadows, but also the hooded gaze of drug-cartel lookouts, and by bullets.
Border agents describe their job as an unending battle of wits, a cat-mouse game with the constant threat of violence
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: amazing
It's not a national emergency. We've had about the same issues with the southern border for decades and decades. Now all of a sudden it's a national emergency because someone made a campaign promise.
One person's "emergency" is another person's "campaign promise". Fortunately for the thousands of families forever hurt by illegal aliens and drugs coming across that border, the person WHO MATTERS, Donald Trump, sees it as an emergency.
Going back to our last republican president, why didn't George Bush think it was an emergency?
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: amazing
It's not a national emergency. We've had about the same issues with the southern border for decades and decades. Now all of a sudden it's a national emergency because someone made a campaign promise.
One person's "emergency" is another person's "campaign promise". Fortunately for the thousands of families forever hurt by illegal aliens and drugs coming across that border, the person WHO MATTERS, Donald Trump, sees it as an emergency.
Going back to our last republican president, why didn't George Bush think it was an emergency?
American citizens eventually got "fed up" with escalating crime, human, drug-trafficking.
I don't think if George Bush or Barack Obama had ran on "BUILD THAT WALL!", it would have elicited as much emotion back then.