A signed continuing resolution provides a solution agreed upon by House, Senate and Executive. It undermines the president's legal position if he undertakes afterwards to declare a national emergency and build the wall. The point is not whether in legal reality he undermines his position, the point is whether a Ninth Circuit Judge will say that he has.
Apparently there are enough poison pills in the continuing resolution, such as arming local left-wing mayors with the power to decline to permit such a barrier, that it is an utter sham.
In my judgment the president must do more of what he has so successfully done, he must continue to go to the people and make the case for stopping the looming waves of mass migration. He did a masterful job at the state of the union and a great job in a different venue serving a different purpose in El Paso. His approval ratings have climbed 7% as a result. Support for the wall has also climbed. The president is fully capable of making the case. His media charisma will guarantee that America will watch and listen.
Having made the case, he should veto the continuing resolution, declare emergency, and appropriate according to statutory provisions far more than 1.6, or even 5.6, billion dollars to build an effective barrier where ever needed.
The president should make the case that mass immigration strikes at the very lifestyle of every American. Perhaps he should go to a hospital emergency waiting room to demonstrate how our health care is threatened. He should go through a classroom in Maryland were 40% of the kids in a given class do not speak English and where the teachers are frustrated beyond endurance. He should flyover crowded highways at rush hour and make the claim, which stalled drivers will readily believe, that many of those cars are driven by illegal immigrants. He should find a friendly union-and there are some-to make a speech describing how illegal immigrants are taking jobs of those union members and of all blue-collar Americans. He should do the same with tech companies who are importing wholesale H1B tech workers to a flood level where English is not the main language at the Cosco in the Washington DC area. He should somehow graphically demonstrate the increased welfare load. This is, after all, a continuing resolution and it would be quite appropriate to talk about a $22 trillion national debt and an $800 million deficit, a good portion of which is spent because of unrestrained illegal immigration. He should talk about how local, state and federal taxes are necessarily increased to provide services for illegal immigrants and talk about how that affects every family of four.
There are innumerable ways of demonstrating to American families-read American mothers who only want nice things to happen for everyone-that their families are really and proximately threatened not just physically but economically, threatened in their education opportunities, threatened in their healthcare and threatened over all in every institution which keeps that family in tact. Every American mother, no matter how much she wishes for rainbows and nice fluffy bunnies, will react like a mama bear when her children are threatened.
Make the threats plain! Make the case!
