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The media are already creating a narrative that, no matter the final disposition of Donald Trump's declaration of a border emergency, the president is on "the brink of defeat." Politico's headline is extraordinarily misleading: "Trump on brink of defeat on border emergency." Just one more Senate Republican is needed to block Trump's emergency declaration, though even critics are reluctant to buck the president. President Donald Trump is on the verge of a bipartisan rejection of his emergency declaration at the border in what would be an embarrassing rebuke by a Congress opposed to his immigration agenda. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)...

The eight border-wall prototypes President Donald Trump inspected during a visit to California in March are going to be torn down to make way for a second barrier... it isn't clear when the prototypes will come down. But money has already been set aside for their removal... the decision has been made at the national level to take them down, and the secondary replacement project will take their place.

Not a surprise but worth noting, as it means Schumer is now halfway to the four Republican votes he needs to pass the House resolution rescinding Trump’s declaration of emergency at the border.First she votes no on Kavanaugh, then this. Is there any red-state Republican in the Senate more confident in her ability to beat back a challenge from the right than Lisa Murkowski? Winning a Senate seat via a write-in campaign after being successfully primaried will do that to you, I guess. In an interview on Channel 2 Friday night, Murkowski said she will “probably” support the resolution...

As California's leftist Gov. Gavin Newsom grandstands about suing the Trump administration over its construction of a concrete border wall, Mexico's human smugglers are having a grand old time, ramming through the corrugated junk metal fencing that's there with heavy smuggling vehicles, terrorist-style. Here's the U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo from independent San Diego television news station KUSI, reporting the matter last night...(snip) KUSI, if you recall, was the local San Diego television news station that was just doing its job when CNN asked its top reporter, Dan Plante, a grizzled old newsman who knows border issues like the...

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Radical centrism in the year of our lord 2019. She’s a former prosecutor and drug warrior, she disclaims the label “democratic socialist,” now here she is suggesting that some barriers to entry by illegal immigrants are appropriate. Relative to the rest of the field, she’s a Republican. “No, I believe that we need border security,” said Harris, who has opposed President Trump’s immigration policies in the Senate.“But we need smart border security. We can’t have open borders, we need to have border security, all nations do,” she continued. “All nations define their borders, but we should not have a...

By “indigenous,” do they mean Native Americans whose land straddles the U.S.-Mexico border? Because those groups do exist.Or are they using “indigenous” to describe people who used to be Americans before the border cruelly shifted north to exclude them and who should, perhaps, be allowed to reclaim their American heritage for legal purposes? Because there are Democratic politicians with considerable and still-growing influence who seem to favor that definition.Let me put this another way: Is the 2020 Democratic platform going to reference “Aztlan”?Either way, one thing you can’t take away from Kirsten Gillibrand is that she’s a bold truth-telling...

So what now? What is going to happen with President Donald Trump’s declaration of an emergency as the basis to repurpose funds to the construction of a border wall? Everything now depends exclusively upon Trump’s legal team playing their cards right. Trump has powerful legal arguments to use, but success will now depend upon the relative skills, experience and intelligence of the teams of lawyers supporting Trump’s policies versus the armies of anti-American lawyers trying to tear down our country. We should be deeply worried. Trump had a slam-dunk case for declaring an emergency to fund a border wall. However,...

Democrats Don’t Oppose Executive Abuse, They Oppose Donald Trump Constitutional norms for thee but not for me. By David Harsanyi Pointing out hypocrisy can be more than a political gotcha. In the case of Donald Trump’s emergency declaration on the southern border, it’s a useful way to highlight the fact that Democrats who are attempting to regain power have not only refused to live by the rules they’ve set for the opposition, they’re also threatening to break those rules in even more expansive ways in the future.As soon as Trump declared a national emergency to fund the building of a...

As a shout-out to the base, a new NPR/Marist poll shows Donald Trump’s emergency declaration a clear success. And that’s about the only good news in the poll, which also shows 61% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s order and want it challenged in court. Fifty-four percent of respondents tell the pollster that they are now less likely to vote for Trump in 2020: More than 6-in-10 Americans disapprove of President Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency so he can build barriers along the U.S border with Mexico, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.Nearly 6-in-10 also don’t believe there...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared President Trump’s border barrier with the Berlin Wall – a Cold War symbol of Communist oppression that divided Germany for nearly three decades.“No matter how you feel about the wall, I think it’s a moral abomination,” Ocasio-Cortez said during a livestream video for her supporters last Friday, according to a report on Fox News.“I think it’s like the Berlin Wall. I think it’s like any other wall designed to separate human beings and block out people who are running away from the humanitarian disasters. I just think it’s wrong.”Twitter users were quick to give Ocasio-Cortez, a...

Trump Is On Solid Legal Ground In Declaring A Border Emergency To Build A Wall President Donald Trump is legally justified in using a declaration of a emergency to use already appropriated federal funds to build a border wall. By Sean Davis A review of existing federal laws makes clear that President Donald Trump has clear statutory authority to build a border wall pursuant to a declaration of a national emergency. Arguments to the contrary either mischaracterize or completely ignore existing federal emergency declarations and appropriations laws that delegate to the president temporary and limited authority to reprogram already appropriated...

Democrats are railing against President Trump's national emergency declaration authorizing the building of additional wall along our southern border. The passage of drugs, children, sex slaves, gangs, criminals, and asylum- and prosperity-seeking aliens across our border is "a manufactured crisis!" they cry in unison, and they charge the President with "overreaching." Some add that an emergency implies urgency, yet Trump has done nothing for two years, therefore this is cannot be an emergency. The prevailing law, the National Emergencies Act of 1976, doesn't define "emergency," so it's pretty much whatever a president says it is. For guidance, we might look...

AUSTIN, Texas - A Texas boy is making headlines after he decided to sell hot chocolate to help fund President Donald Trump's proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. According to KXAN, Jennifer Stevens, of Austin, said her 7-year-old son, Benton, wanted to learn more about the wall after watching the State of the Union earlier this month. He came up with the idea to raise money after his parents, who are both Republican National Convention members, explained the issue. With his family's help, Benton put together his hot cocoa stand and set up shop outside an Austin shopping center last...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Attorney General Hector Balderas announced today that they will take President Donald Trump to court “over his inappropriate and overreaching” declaration of a national emergency. Trump on Friday declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border ... The declaration is aimed at securing more money for his signature border wall. Both Lujan Grisham and Balderas are blasting the president for the declaration, saying that it would divert funds “crucial to the protection of New Mexicans away from their proper channels and puts New Mexico’s economy and people at risk.” “As Attorney General...

(I saw this on a Facebook post): ========== WALL RESEARCH • there are only three circuits who might hear a challenge to a Declaration of Emergency, 9th, 5th, and 10th. But a challenge can only start in a state where wall construction is going up (Texas). While not unanimous, the 5th Circuit in Texas is an R-dominated court. However, and this is where it gets good, before any court can hear a case it must be "ripe." For ex., DeWine in Ohio has said he will sign the "Heartbeat Bill" and ghoulish Planned Parenthood will challenge that - but Planned...

A top adviser to President Donald Trump indicated Sunday that Trump is prepared to issue the first veto of his term if Congress votes to disapprove of his declaration of a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border. White House senior adviser Stephen Miller told “Fox News Sunday” that “the president is going to protect his national emergency declaration.” Asked if that meant Trump was ready to veto, Miller added, “He’s going to protect his national emergency declaration, guaranteed.” Trump declared the emergency Friday in an effort to go around Congress to fund his border wall. It would allow him to...

Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise ye princes, and prepare the shield. For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed.And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. – Isaiah 21:...

At 10 am ET today, Donald Trump will declare a national emergency in order to redirect funding from the Pentagon to the border wall. That will only account for about half of the additional funding Trump will claim above the $1.37 billion Congress finally appropriated for the project, however. ABC News reported last night that Trump will raid drug-war accounts to match those funds: ABC News has learned the president plans to announce on Friday his intention to spend about $8 billion on the border wall with a mix of spending from Congressional appropriations approved Thursday night, executive action...

Brooks calls on the President to Invoke Title 10 sec. 248 of the U.S. code https://youtu.be/LryeNnUmegA House Freedom Caucus member Mo Brooks urged President Trump to use National Emergencies Act of 1976, Title 10 U.S. Code Section 284, and every other possible federal statute to build the wall in a fiery speech earlier today.