There are two choices.
If the Congress approves the Trump Plan, funding will be added. If Congress does not approve the Trump Plan,
Trump will declare a National Defense Emergency and the DOD will construct and
pay for the wall.
Trump Makes Bold Ultimatum in Prime-Time Immigration
Speech, by Randy DeSoto, 1/8/19, Western Journal.
President Trump made an appeal directly
to the American people for increased border
security funding in his Oval Office address on Tuesday night, contending that
his Democrat opponents bear the blame for the current impasse.
“Sen. Chuck Schumer… has repeatedly
supported a physical barrier in the past along with many other Democrats. They
changed their mind only after I was elected president.
Democrats in Congress
have refused to acknowledge the crisis, and they have refused to provide our brave border agents with the tools they
desperately need to protect our families and our nation,” Trump said.
“The Federal Government remains shut
down for one reason and one reason only: because Democrats will not fund border
security… The only solution is for Democrats to pass a spending bill that
defends our borders and reopens the government,” Trump continued, “This
situation could be solved in a 45 minute meeting.”
Earlier in the day, the White House
released its plan for using the requested funds,
which includes $5.7 billion to construct 234 miles of new physical barrier
along the border.
Trump is also seeking $675 million for
equipment to detect and deter narcotics, weapons and other contraband trying to
be brought through the ports of entry.
“Our southern border is a pipeline for
vast quantities of illegal drugs including meth, heroine, cocaine, and
fentanyl. Every week 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone, 90 percent
of which floods across from our southern border,” Trump said. “More Americans
will die from drugs this year than were killed in the entire Vietnam War.”
The administration wants an additional
nearly $6 billion to hire more border patrol agents and immigration judges and
for the housing, medical and transportation costs associated with those
detained at the border.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have both come out in opposition to further
funding for a border wall or barrier. Pelosi has called a wall between nations
an “immorality.”
Currently, there exists about 700 miles
of various forms of fencing or barriers along the nation’s 1,954-mile border
with Mexico. Included in this total is approximately 350 miles of pedestrian
fencing and 300 miles of vehicle barriers, National Review reported.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, there were a total of 521,000
apprehensions at the southwest border in Fiscal Year 2018.
The number of apprehensions surged in
the first two months of FY 2019 to approximately 60,700 in October and 62,500
in November. Those figures represent an over 10,000 person-per-month increase
compared to FY 2018.
In a joint statement released ahead of Trump’s address,
Pelosi and Schumer predicted his remarks would be filled with “malice and
misinformation.”
Trump stopped short of declaring a state
of emergency to obtain wall funding, which he asserted on Friday that he has the power to
do.
“We can call a national emergency
because of the security of our country… I haven’t done it, I may do it,” he
said.
“We can call a national emergency and
build it very quickly,” Trump added. “But if we can do it through a negotiated
process, we are giving that a shot.”
To that end, Trump informed the American
people of his intention to meet Wednesday with Democrat and Republican leaders
to continue talks, though he did not remove
the option for a declaration of national emergency from the
table.
“Congress can terminate a declared
emergency, but it requires a joint resolution – a high hurdle,” the news outlet
noted. “House Democrats, now in power, would have to convince Senate
Republicans…to join them in blocking Trump’s move. Then they would have
to get a signature from the president, the same person who declared the
emergency in the first place, or override his veto.”
The other means those opposed to the
border barrier would likely take is to seek an injunction stopping
construction, probably in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has
shown the greatest willingness to oppose the president’s policies, particularly
on issues related to immigration.
The Trump administration would then
almost certainly have to engage in a lengthy court battle all the way to the
U.S. Supreme Court, where it may or may not get a favorable ruling.
Comments
The current House
Budget has no border wall funding and also has a 20% increase in unnecessary
spending. If the House approves the border wall funding, then the Senate will
go after them to remove the 20% waste.
The military of the United States is deployed
in more than 150 countries
around the world, with approximately 165,000 of its active-duty personnel
serving outside the United States and its territories.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has
approximately 37,000 dedicated
Civilians and Soldiers delivering engineering services to customers in more than
130 countries worldwide.
These resources should be deployed to the US
Border.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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