Posted on 03/15/2019 3:09:35 PM PDT by SMGFan
President Donald Trump issued his first veto of his administration Friday. Below is the text of the message he sent to Congress:
To the House of Representatives:
I am returning herewith without my approval H.J. Res. 46, a joint resolution that would terminate the national emergency I declared regarding the crisis on our southern border in Proclamation 9844 on February 15, 2019, pursuant to the National Emergencies Act.
As demonstrated by recent statistics published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and explained in testimony given by the Secretary of Homeland Security on March 6, 2019, before the House Committee on Homeland Security, our porous southern border continues to be a magnet for lawless migration and criminals and has created a border security and humanitarian crisis that endangers every American. Last month alone, CBP apprehended more than 76,000 aliens improperly attempting to enter the United States along the southern border — the largest monthly total in the last 5 years. In fiscal year 2018, CBP seized more than 820,000 pounds of drugs at our southern border, including 24,000 pounds of cocaine, 64,000 pounds of methamphetamine, 5,000 pounds of heroin, and 1,800 pounds of fentanyl. In fiscal years 2017 and 2018, immigration officers nationwide made 266,000 arrests of aliens previously charged with or convicted of crimes. These crimes included approximately 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 killings. In other words, aliens coming across our border have injured or killed thousands of people, while drugs flowing through the border have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
The current situation requires our frontline border enforcement personnel to vastly increase their humanitarian efforts. Along their dangerous trek to the United States, 1 in 3 migrant women experiences sexual abuse, and 7 in 10 migrants are victims of violence. Fifty migrants per day are referred for emergency medical care, and CBP rescues 4,300 people per year who are in danger and distress. The efforts to address this humanitarian catastrophe draw resources away from enforcing our Nation’s immigration laws and protecting the border, and place border security personnel at increased risk.
As troubling as these statistics are, they reveal only part of the reality. The situation at the southern border is rapidly deteriorating because of who is arriving and how they are arriving. For many years, the majority of individuals who arrived illegally were single adults from Mexico. Under our existing laws, we could detain and quickly remove most of these aliens. More recently, however, illegal migrants have organized into caravans that include large numbers of families and unaccompanied children from Central American countries. Last year, for example, a record number of families crossed the border illegally. If the current trend holds, the number of families crossing in fiscal year 2019 will greatly surpass last year’s record total. Criminal organizations are taking advantage of these large flows of families and unaccompanied minors to conduct dangerous illegal activity, including human trafficking, drug smuggling, and brutal killings.
Under current laws, court decisions, and resource constraints, the Government cannot detain families or undocumented alien children from Central American countries in significant numbers or quickly deport them. Instead, the Government is forced to release many of them into the interior of the United States, pending lengthy judicial proceedings. Although many fail ever to establish any legal right to remain in this country, they stay nonetheless.
This situation on our border cannot be described as anything other than a national emergency, and our Armed Forces are needed to help confront it.
My highest obligation as President is to protect the Nation and its people. Every day, the crisis on our border is deepening, and with new surges of migrants expected in the coming months, we are straining our border enforcement personnel and resources to the breaking point.
H.J. Res. 46 ignores these realities. It is a dangerous resolution that would undermine United States sovereignty and threaten the lives and safety of countless Americans. It is, therefore, my duty to return it to the House of Representatives without my approval.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 15, 2019.
When dithering is the best response, look to the US Congress at any point in time. The job of Congress must be to dither.
Rock On President Donald J Trump, Rock On!!!
“Something will happen” — the big question is whether it takes a Venezuela-level collapse to cause something to happen in the US, or whether the frog will wake up in time to the rising water temperature. The Venezuelans elected their tyrannical dictators and now they are starving and getting water from sewer lines. Look how fast Venezuela collapsed...and the collapse is still accelerating.
Our youth are enamored with the “justice” offered by socialism. That does not bode well for the future of the US.
Thank you Elsie.
I get on my knees every day and thank The Lord for blessing us with this wonderful, courageous, wise Leader.
President Trump is America.
With brass balls so large they clank when he walks.
Love ya President Trump.
I would have been more vindictive and listed all the Senators who voted to ignore this national emergency.
There are about 22 million illegals wandering around this country. How many more millions have to sneak in before Pelosi and the dastardly 12 Republican Senators decided enough is enough?
The #1 problem in this country is not the border. The #1 problem is the Rat/RINO uniparty of treason. Get rid of them every other problem will be fixed. What we have here are domestic enemies of this country IN office doing everything they can to harm this country and when are people going to say enough is enough?
The #1 problem in this country is not the border. The #1 problem is the Rat/RINO uniparty of treason. Get rid of them every other problem will be fixed.
Truer words never spoken. We have no opposition party to the progressive corportist agenda. It’s hard to see how this ends well for the country when Republicans throw in with Democrats whenever conservatives get close to victory.
...This situation on our border cannot be described as anything other than a national emergency, and our Armed Forces are needed to help confront it. My highest obligation as President is to protect the Nation and its people. Every day, the crisis on our border is deepening, and with new surges of migrants expected in the coming months, we are straining our border enforcement personnel and resources to the breaking point. H.J. Res. 46 ignores these realities. It is a dangerous resolution that would undermine United States sovereignty and threaten the lives and safety of countless Americans. It is, therefore, my duty to return it to the House of Representatives without my approval.
"THEY" know there is a crises, "THEY" are working to make it as big as they can. The reason is simple: Make a few more states S$#T holes like Kalifornia overrun with illegal invaders, then the will of the American people can be totally ignored.
Let them in, they will vote overwhelmingly Demonrat.
Purge the invaders from our country and the Demonrats will get slaughtered in many elections.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
THIS PRESIDENT, We can’t lose him,the FIGHTS! MAGA 2020!!
The = he, damn auto correct.
Dang, I was hoping for a two-word answer.
LOL, me too........but like the song says “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”.......
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