The U.S. Senate is set to vote on
a joint resolution of disapproval of President Donald Trump’s claim of a
national emergency on the southern border. The U.S. House of Representatives
passed the resolution last week, and the Senate seems to be ready to do the
same.
It seems that Senator DavidPerdue (R-Georgia) decided to see the situation in person, so he traveled to
the southern border and to speak with the Border Patrol. He says that he was
not prepared for what he saw.
I saw something that I was not expecting….
I expected to see the human trafficking,
and we saw that with (Border) Patrol overnight…. What I was not prepared for
was the size and scope and how dramatically the drug trafficking has grown….
This is a drug crisis of gargantuan
proportion.
The Senator explained that Border
Patrol agents are “distracted” by human trafficking, and the Mexican cartels
slip drug traffickers through the border. It seems that the drugs are the money
makers with $30 billion compared with $2 in human trafficking. He said that
there is “no doubt in his mind” that there is a crisis at the border and reminded
us that walls work. “We know that where you build walls, illegal activity drops
by 95 percent.”
Maybe it is time for Mitch McConnell
to take all the Senators on a field trip to the border. If the liberals in
Congress – including Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins
(Maine), Thom Tillis (North Carolina), and Rand Paul (Kentucky) -- saw the same
things that Perdue saw, they might not be so willing to jump on the
Democrat-sponsored resolution of disapproval of President Donald Trump’s claim
of a national emergency taking place on the border.
President Trump does not seem too
concerned that the resolution was passed by the House of Representatives or the
possibility of one being passed by the Senate. “We have too many smart people
that want border security so I can’t imagine it (the resolution) will survive a
veto.” It seems that he will take his chances in his efforts to secure the
border and protect the American people with or without help from Congress.
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