Posted on 01/10/2019 6:35:50 PM PST by mdittmar
MCALLEN, Texas/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Flanked by border agents who are going without paychecks during a government shutdown, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to use emergency powers to bypass Congress to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The first news story at cnn if Trump does this.......Federal Judge blocks wall.
I think the impasse should go on as long as it takes.
Let Chucky and NanSee squirm. Trump holds the cards, not them.
Politically, this is what his supporters want. It is the right thing to do.
The illegal invasion is dog gone close to overtaking us now, so it’s do or die as I see it.
...72,000 drug overdose deaths in US in 2017 , of which 30,000 heroin/fentanyl... is enough to call it a crisis.
Trump needs to up the ante...
1. Declare emergency on Border
2. Raise amount spent on wall from 5.6 to 25 Billion
***** BUILD IT ALL *******
3. Run a Trump Campaign ad -— Securing our Morning in America with billions for 1 month.
If it works for you, use emergency to build wall.
Use shutdown to justify emergency.
Do not end shutdown without funds for wall being supplied by Congress.
Oh, I agree it’s a crisis; it’s BEEN a crisis.
My only issue is those activist judges and how everyone will come out of the woodwork to question whether this is really a crisis. And then it will drag on and on and on.
If the corrupt anti Trump legal system gets their claws in it, I’m afraid we’ll never get it.
But the President has all the information (whereas I do not) so whatever he thinks will get the job done I will support.
Hey Reuters,
It’s PRESIDENT Trump.
Don’t just build the wall. Dig a ditch 1/4 mile wide south of the wall and keep it filled with water and alligators.
dont just build a wall, close the border in the mean time to all but what Trumps deems as essential vehicles or people passing thru the border. Tell all US citizens they have 2 days to get back across or have to undergo more scrutiny to be let back thru. I’m tired of this dragged out timeline as we hear more people being boat shuttled to CA destinations, I’m sure same happening in TX and FL, as well as flying in. stop adding to the court back log of cases because so many of those will have burrowed into the fabric of the USA by the time their case comes up.
This will accomplish nothing. Liberals on the 9th Circuit would immediately stay the ruling and it will be tied up for 1 to 2 years before the Supreme Court rules. Then of course it takes time to start construction assuming the Supremes rule in Trump’s favor which is no certainty at all considering Roberts has been swinging left.
This is a face saving way to show the base he did everything he could but in actuality it does nothing and admits defeat.
[and keep it filled with water and alligators]
Is it too much to ask for sharks with laser beams shooting from their foreheads?
Mega dittos. Trump using an emergency declaration is just a way of surrendering to the Dims. It takes them completely off the hook. The executive branch is already out of control and needs reigned in. Force the House to do its job.
Trump seems to be losing a shutdown war he started and now he wants a way out. Stick to the shutdown.
“Trump using an emergency declaration is just a way of surrendering to the Dims. It takes them completely off the hook.”
He is using the office of the Presidency. Like Lincoln did when he issued the emancipation proclamation.
I’m seeing DEMOCRATS in conservative districts beginning to feel the heat, including my own Rep. Pray PRESIDENT TRUMP stays strong until he gets $5 Billion for the wall.
I’m there as well.
Don’t threaten. Get it started and shove it up the democrats’ collective.
The Supreme Court can take the appeal from Trump Admin...immediately, as it is a national security issue.
Think.
It is not about the shutdown. That is merely a tactic to get the goal of the Border Wall built.
Simple solution: start building in the 5th and 10th districts.
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