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President Trump declares national emergency for border wall funding

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s a national emergency in America as President Donald J. Trump made the declaration Friday so that billions of dollars can be rounded up and spent to build a barrier on the Southern border.

The White House said today that President Trump is using his legal authority to take Executive action to secure additional resources to build a Southern barrier. In part, he is declaring a national emergency that makes available additional troops and funding for military construction. Including funding in Homeland Security appropriations, the Administration has so far identified up to $8.1 billion that will be available to build the border wall once a national emergency is declared and additional funds have been reprogrammed, including:

– About $601 million from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund

– Up to $2.5 billion under the Department of Defense funds transferred for Support for Counterdrug Activities (Title 10 United States Code, section 284)

– Up to $3.6 billion reallocated from Department of Defense military construction projects under the President’s declaration of a national emergency (Title 10 United States Code, section 2808)

These funding sources will be used sequentially and as needed. Courts could block the national emergency declaration.

The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, and the Army Corps of Engineers are working to create a prioritized list of segments and a work plan for the remainder of FY 2019 and beyond.

New projects could include: new levee wall, new and replacement primary pedestrian barrier, new vehicle-to-pedestrian barrier, and new secondary barrier.

NATIONAL EMERGENCY ON OUR BORDER:

The President is using his “clear authority” to declare a national emergency as allowed under the National Emergencies Act.

Since 1976, presidents have declared nearly 60 national emergencies.

Most of the previously declared national emergencies have been continually renewed and are still in effect, after being continually renewed.

Multiple Governors have declared states of emergency along the border in the past.
Former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, who became President Obama’s DHS Secretary, declared a state of emergency along the border in 2005.

Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson also declared a state of emergency at the border in 2005.

Former President George W. Bush and former President Obama both directed the use of the military to assist DHS in securing and managing the Southern Border.

Former President Bush declared a national emergency in 2001, which invoked reprogramming authority granted by Title 10 United States Code, section 2808, and both he and former President Obama used that authority a total of 18 times to fund projects between 2001 and 2014.

ADDRESSING THE CRISIS AT HAND: President Trump is taking the necessary steps to address the crisis at our Southern Border and stop crime and drugs from flooding into our Nation.

– Cartels, traffickers, and gangs, like the vile MS-13 gang, have taken advantage of our weak borders for their own gain.

– Immigration officers have made 266,000 arrests of criminal aliens in the last two fiscal years.

– This includes aliens charged or convicted of approximately 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 killings.

– Tons of deadly drugs have flooded across the border and into our communities, taking countless American lives.

– Methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl all flow across our Southern Border and destroy our communities.

– More than 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2017 alone.

– Human traffickers exploit our borders to traffic young girls and women into our country and sell them into prostitution and slavery.

– Massive caravans of migrants view our unsecure border as a way to gain illegal entry into our country and take advantage of our nonsensical immigration loopholes.

Friday, a liberal Iowa political group, Progress Iowa, hit back on the border wall national emergency, saying:

Trump promised Mexico would pay for it, but they didn’t.

Trump tried to get the Republican Congress to pay for it, but they wouldn’t.

Trump tried to get the Democratic Congress to pay for it, but they wouldn’t.

President Trump’s racist wall has been rejected by Democrats, Republicans, and the American people who are opposed in every poll asking them about the subject. Just now in a Rose Garden press conference, Trump declared a made up national emergency in order to pay for his wall, after failing in every possible way to get the job done in a legitimate way.

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