Liberals, Democrats,
Never-Trumpers, and some Republicans are angry because Donald Trump declared
that there is a national emergency on the southern border of the United States.
This
emergency has been building for decades, and past Presidents have declared that
something should be done. Even Democrats in Congress professed that something
had to be done about all the illegal aliens who were crossing the border.
Then along comes Donald Trump who
campaigns on building a wall. The majority of Americans decided to give him a
chance and voted him into office. He has been trying to build a wall for the
past two years but has been stymied by Congress – both Republicans and
Democrats. He shut down the government for more than thirty-five days in an
effort to push Congress into funding the wall. Congress did not budge, and
Trump had compassion for the federal employees who were not being paid. It
should have been Congress that went without paychecks, but that is another
story. Trump gave Congress another chance to pass a bill that would fund the
wall, but Congress failed to do their job once again.
The President of the United States
has the duty to keep Americans safe, and there is a real emergency on the
border. Because Congress failed to do their job, the President had to find a
way to do his duty. He chose to issue a declaration of a national emergency,
and everyone is upset at his calling it an emergency.
Hans von Spakovsky posted an interesting article at The Daily Signal in support of the President by likening
the situation to the family budget. I like this analogy because it makes the
whole business seem reasonable.
The president is using the declaration
to enable him to shift funds already in the federal budget to border security.
The shifting of money from one set of priorities to the more urgent priority of
border security will allow the president to spend over $8.1 billion to build
barriers along part of our border with Mexico and fund other border security
measures.
… In truth, the president is using his
constitutional authority in the same way other presidents have, in order to
find money to deal with an emergency.
And make no mistake, the crisis on the
U.S.-Mexico border is a real emergency – not a figment of Trump’s imagination.
Think of what the president is doing in
terms of your family budget. You have money set aside to buy a new car. Then a
member of your family gets seriously ill and requires emergency medical
treatment that costs you several thousand dollars not covered by your health
insurance. What do you do? You postpone buying the new car and use the money
for emergency medical care.
I hope that you think about the
President’s emergency order in the same way that you would consider paying for
medical treatment instead of buying a new car. Almost everyone can nurse an
older car along for a few more months or even years, but emergency medical
treatment must take place immediately if not sooner.
In the same way, the wall needs to
be built immediately if not sooner. There is a real emergency at our southern
border. People of all sorts are taking advantage of the large loop holes in our
immigration laws. They are bringing drugs across the border that kill thousands
of Americans each year. They are trafficking in humans, including children.
Illegal aliens in our nation are committing crimes, all while being protected
by sanctuary cities. There are lunatics in our Congress and leading our largest
cities. The President had no other choice than to declare the emergency in
order to build a barrier to protect Americans.
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