INFRASTRUCTURE IS A TRUE EMERGENCY!  BILLIONS NEEDED!

REBUILD AMERICA NOT THE BORDER WALL! 

USE TAX DOLLARS WISELY, STOP THE IGNORANT, SELF-SERVING TWEETY WASTE!

DO NOT BREACH CONSTITUTIONAL SEPARATION OF POWERS, CONFRESS APPROPRIATES FUNDS, NOT THE PRESIDENT.

ABUSE OF POWER SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE THAN OBAMA.

ABUSE AND LIE ALWAYS, EVERY CHNACE HE GETS.

It should be obvious to any objective person now, Dec 2019, that Tweety Trump's Wall, and everyone who supports building the Wall, used the idea s a political lever, not a National Emergency.  In the 11 months, Feb 2019, passed since declaring a National Emergency, what calamity has befallen America, and why aren't people outraged by this claim of national Emergency, at best stupid, and at worst, another abuse of power?

Tweety got the idea of a Wall in his political campaign to be President, and now wants to spend billions on a bad idea just to keep a promise.  It's not his money so he doesn't care if it is wasted!

"Trump Declares a National Emergency, and Provokes a Constitutional Clash"

By Peter Baker  Feb. 15, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/us/politics/national-emergency-trump.html

"WASHINGTON — President Trump declared a national emergency on the border with Mexico on Friday in order to access billions of dollars that Congress refused to give him to build a wall there, transforming a highly charged policy dispute into a confrontation over the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution."

Tweety is staling from the US Treasury to accomplish a dumb campaign promise!  Will he fight this hard for INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY?

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Sounding alternately defensive and aggrieved, Mr. Trump explained his failure to secure wall funding during his first two years in office when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress by saying, “I was a little new to the job.” He blamed “certain people, a particular one, for not having pushed this faster,” a clear reference to former Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, a Republican.

Mr. Trump’s assertions were replete with misinformation and, when challenged by reporters, he refused to accept statistics produced by his own government that conflicted with his narrative."

Trump lies pathologically, and uses his inventive imagination, "truthful hyperbole," lies are OK when done for a good purpose.  What is his "purpose," how does his purpose benefit the United States, objectively speaking.

"Among those predicting a flurry of judicial decisions against Mr. Trump was George T. Conway III, a conservative lawyer and the husband of Kellyanne Conway, the president’s counselor. “If he knows he is going to lose,” [Would have been better if George said "challenged"] Mr. Conway, a vocal critic of Mr. Trump, wrote on Twitter, “then he knows he is violating the Constitution and laws he has sworn to uphold.”"

Tweety Trump did claim he would win, of course  So now the "battle" is in courts wasting millions, and the Wall Tweety pledged to build is not built.

"Most Americans oppose Mr. Trump’s emergency declaration, according to polls. One released this week by Fox News found 56 percent against it, including 20 percent of Republicans.

Mr. Trump’s desire for approval by Fox and other conservative news outlets was on display when he identified various pundits as supporters, naming Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson and Rush Limbaugh, although he insisted that “they don’t decide policy.”"

I am not sure what Fox's beef with Tweety was, or even some of his other "friends" / advisors, given they defend everything he does.  But Tweety is abusing his power as he steals funds NOT appropriated by Congress for the Wall via a fake "emergency."  The White House defense of this abuse of power was very, very weak.

"Presidents have declared national emergencies under a 1970s-era law about five dozen times, and 31 of those prior emergencies remain active. But most of them dealt with foreign crises and involved freezing property, blocking trade or exports or taking other actions against national adversaries, not redirecting money without explicit congressional authorization.

White House officials cited only two times that such emergency declarations were used by presidents to spend money without legislative approval — once by President George Bush in 1990 during the run-up to the Persian Gulf war, and again by his son, President George W. Bush, in 2001 after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania."

Tweety Trump and others roll our several individuals who have killed or hurt Americans as a basis for considering all immigrates crossing the border a threat to commit crimes.  It a false equivalency, a red herring, and basically stupid to say and think these things.  If no one was anywhere, no one dies anywhere, THAT is how stupid this argument is.

""In Mr. Trump’s case, he is defining a longstanding problem at the border as an emergency even though border apprehensions have actually fallen in recent years, to 400,000 in the last fiscal year from a peak of 1.6 million in the 2000 fiscal year. And unlike either of the Bushes, he is taking action after failing to persuade lawmakers to go along with his plans through the regular appropriations process."

This is perhaps not as silly as BREXIT, given the years that have passed since voting to leave the European Union and nothing bad has happened!  I cannot find any articles as of De 2019 talking about how bad things are, just whether the impact of BREXIT is going to get bad AFTER leaving.

"Trump wall - all you need to know about US border in seven charts"
By Lucy Rodgers and Dominic Bailey BBC News  27 Sep 2019  US & Canada

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-46824649

"The emergency order has allowed Mr Trump to divert money from other projects to fund his long-promised wall after he failed to get approval for the required cash from Congress.

Lawmakers have voted twice to end the emergency, but have not yet achieved the two-thirds support needed.

Here are seven charts and maps that try to explain what the situation is like at the US-Mexico border and where we are with the wall.

1. Trump hasn't built very much of his wall
Mr Trump has argued a wall is needed to tackle the border issue - the signature promise of his 2016 election campaign.

Before he took office, there were 654 miles (just over 1,000km) of barrier along the southern border - made up of 354 miles of barriers to stop pedestrians and 300 miles of anti-vehicle fencing.

In the run-up to his election victory, Mr Trump promised to build a wall along the border's entire 2,000-mile length.

He later clarified that it would only cover half of that - with nature, such as mountains and rivers, helping to take care of the rest.

But, since Mr Trump entered the White House, although some of the already existing barriers have been replaced, work on extending the current barrier only began this year.

 
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Overall, $9.8bn has been secured since January 2017 to construct approximately 509 miles of "new border wall system", according to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

A total of 57 miles of replacement barrier and nine miles of new secondary barrier have been constructed - a total of 66 miles.

However, no "new wall" - any extension to existing structures - has yet been completed."

The article goes on to list other facts about the Wall.

"2. No-one really knows how much it would cost
A number of widely different estimates for Mr Trump's promised concrete wall have been put forward by official and unofficial bodies - ranging from $12bn to $70bn."

Trump has no idea what kind of Wall can meet operational needs, and despite his bragging about being good at building things, he is NOT good at leading the building of his Wall.  One of Tweety's Wall prototypes was "impenetrable," according to Tweety in one of his brag sessions.  Then that Wall was penetrated with a saw from a local hardware store, so he had to back off that braggadocio.

"4. Illegal crossings at the southern border have risen dramatically after a fall "

"5. May [2019] saw the highest number of migrants for more than a decade "

"6. A lot [Author is trying to be nice.  He uses the wrong term, "lot," since MOST is actually the correct term.] of illegal immigration is from visa 'overstayers' "

"While almost 600,000 people were apprehended trying to cross the southern border illegally last year, more than 660,000 people who entered the US legally overstayed their expected departure date in 2018, according to the DHS."

"7. The wall is unlikely to stop drugs coming into the US
Mr Trump has claimed 90% of heroin comes across the southern border and that a wall would help the fight against drugs.

Nationwide heroin seizures reached 7,979kg in 2017, with 39% seized at the US-Mexico border, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

While most of the heroin in the US does come from Mexico, the DEA says the majority of it is smuggled in through legal ports of entry, hidden in privately-owned vehicles or transporter lorries, mixed with other goods.

Only a small percentage of the heroin seizures were between entry points - where barriers exist or are proposed.

In fact, there are already barriers in border patrol sectors with the highest volumes of heroin seizures."