Trump - “I didn’t need to do this”

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The President has declared a national emergency and in the same speech indicated that it is not an emergency.

Relative to the Spirits Works of Mercy, Catholics have an obligation to ‘admonish the sinner’… Trumps words and actions on this so-called national emergency, is certainly a lie and in need of correction.

Great words of wisdom …
“Harsh and divisive language does not befit the tongue of a pastor; it has no place in his heart; although it may momentarily seem to win the day, only the enduring allure of goodness and love remains truly convincing.”
 
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It is true. He didn’t need to do it.

This is a huge overreach of executive power.

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

Article 1, Sec. 9, Clause 7, US Constitution.
 
Our Constitution provides for three co-equal parts of government - executive, legislative and judicial.
Mr. Trump wants to do all three.
He needs to stay in his lane…
Trump’s proposed Wall is completely unnecessary. The only border crisis is one that was invented by former DOJ head Jeff Sessions by implementing a plan to separate the parents and children of aliens seeking asylum from countries south of Mexico.
 
YourNameHere said:
Trump’s proposed Wall is completely unnecessary
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You had me until here. Based upon what?
YourNameHere said:
The only border crisis is one that was invented by former DOJ head Jeff Sessions by implementing a plan to separate the parents and children of aliens seeking asylum from countries south of Mexico.
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So, there are children, in many cases unaccompanied minors, who are seeking asylum at the border… that’s not a crisis? What is, then?
 
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Trump did great, he has other ways to address this as well.

Obama came up with DACA, that is outside a president’s power, Obama voted for infanticide, the Democrats are standing for infanticide now, anti-semitism. Trump is standing up for good and people are critical?
 
Friend, I live in Texas. The Rio Grande River is our border between Texas and Mexico.
As long as I can remember Mexicans have crossed the border in search of jobs, mostly jobs like picking crops at harvest time.
You can’t build the Wall in the River. That means it gets build on our side of the river. Trump’s Wall would take away land owned by Texans for hundreds of years. Eminent domain. We take land ownership very seriously in Texas.
 
A humanitarian crisis, perhaps. But that’s not what Trump is pushing — his crisis is one of threats and fear. He’s not wanting to repurpose money to take in those asylum-seeking kids and families, but to keep them out. And while certainly a country should be able to enjoy secure borders, the Trumpian rhetoric is the same kind of xenophobia our own Catholic immigrant ancestors dealt with a hundred years ago (and indeed, a lot of these people are our fellow Catholics, though the religious fear-mongering these days has shifted to Islam under the belief that vaguely brownish people from a completely different part of the world are using these brownish people as cover).
 
It is indeed a crisis, but not one solved by building a wall.
We need better detention facilities and more judges for courts to determine the legitimacy of asylum seekers.
 
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but to keep them out
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At this time, certainly. The US is a nation of laws, and as such they should be upheld. Until our immigration laws are reformed, President Trump has sworn to uphold the current ones, which make crossing the border without prior US approval illegal.
Is reform nessecary? absolutely. Until then, though, the laws which we have ought to be enforced.
 
I think a wall would certainly assist, but I also agree with you that a multifaceted approach is necessary. To think ‘the wall’ will solve everything is myopic and idiotic.
 
My U.S. Congressman is Will Hurd. He is a Republican. His district ranges from San Antonio to El Paso, along the border.
Hurd is against the Wall.
Google him to find his reason for opposition to Trump’s wall.
 
He may claim he “didn’t need to do this.” Yet that’s all he’s threatened to do since before the govt shutdown. He thought the threat would make everyone who opposed him cave in.

Now that he’s declared this “national emergency,” what has it accomplished? Does he have his wall? No. Does he have his funding? No.

What he’s going to have is a long court fight that will tie up any funds he hoped to get and will possibly stall any progress he could’ve made on its construction.

Why he doesn’t use El Chappo’s money to fund the wall is beyond me. Yes, that’s tied up in real estate right now. But honestly, sell the real estate and use the money for the wall. Make those ill gotten gains go for something positive. In that way, he’d get the wall he desires and keep his promise to “make Mexico pay for it.”
 
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Texas Congressional District 23. Will Hurd, second-term Republican. 👍👍👍
 
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Friend, I live in Texas. The Rio Grande River is our border between Texas and Mexico.
As long as I can remember Mexicans have crossed the border in search of jobs, mostly jobs like picking crops at harvest time.
You can’t build the Wall in the River. That means it gets build on our side of the river. Trump’s Wall would take away land owned by Texans for hundreds of years. Eminent domain. We take land ownership very seriously in Texas.
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So, are you saying Texans are overwhelmingly against the Wall being built?
 
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