Just getting “factual”. You’re welcome.
Yes. An ongoing invasion which I have commented on since the 1980s when about 2.5 million illegal entrants were given amnesty based upon a promise our borders would be secured.
Aside from that, I noticed you did not address the question posed in the OP.
JWK
How many of these folks seeking asylum commit mass murders? How many of them get a gun and take out a bunch of students at a grammar or high school? How many of them go into a nightclub and slaughter dozens of people? How many of them go into a church and mow down parishioners?
The person who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is more threatening to our democracy and safety than women and children.
When you learn the form of government we have, get back to me.
JWK
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Huh?
JWK
American citizens are sick and tired of being made into tax-slaves to finance the economic needs of millions of poverty stricken, poorly educated, low and unskilled aliens who have invaded America’s borders.
I wonder what the open border Democrat Leadership will argue in court now that President Trump has declared an emergency under the power granted him.
JWK
There is no surer way to weaken, subdue, demoralize and then conquer a prosperous and freedom loving people than by allowing and encouraging the poverty stricken, poorly educated, low-skilled, criminal and diseased populations of other countries to invade that country, and make the country’s existing citizens tax-slaves to support the economic needs of such invaders.
Hell you have president candidate (Beto O’Rourke) advocating tearing down the border wall/fence all together and have completely open border.
Democrat Beto O’Rourke said on Thursday that if it was up to him he would “absolutely” tear down the existing border barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Surely as someone who is such a self-professed Constitutionalist, you are not actually in favor of this Emergency Declaration are you? You surely see how a circumvention of the Constitution to re-appropriate funds Congress has already appropriated flies directly in the face of what the Founders intended when they gave appropriation powers to the Legislature and not the Executive. Of all people here, surely YOU would agree this is a massive affront to the Constitution.
And the astounding thing is, he actually has a significant following. I suspect, however, they are mostly illegal entrants and government cheese eaters.
JWK
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialism will promise food on the table, free public housing, health care for all, free college tuition, and other niceties by taxing the so called rich; and if by chance her leadership gains control because of such promises made, the end result, as John Adams stated, “will be revengeful, bloody, and cruel”
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Our founders intended our President to be able to act in emergency situations. Our Constitution mentions invasions three times. In one of those instances it states:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;
In another instance it states our federal government has power: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
And, in another part of the Constitution the president takes an oath to "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
So, to answer your question, I support the president using emergency powers to repel the ongoing invasion at our southern border.
JWK
The Democrat and Republican Leadership have conspired, for 35 years, to keep the border opened, and today’s Bill continues to allow and encourage illegal border crossings.
Interesting. I always thought you firmly believed in the separation of powers and that the Legislature has the power of appropriations and not the Executive. I’ve learned something new about someone I viewed as an actual originalist.
As a conservative and someone who proudly believes in the Constitution, I’m appalled at this naked attempt to circumvent the Constitution in a tyrannical attempt to steal the power of the purse away from the Congress.
Trump made his case to the Congress. The Congress responded with legislation they felt appropriate to address the issue. They gave the funding they felt necessary to address this alleged “invasion.” The President signed the legislation that funds the solution to this problem. As the Founders intended.
And then Trump tried an end-round of the Constitution and the appropriation process, and you seem to believe this is what the Founders would have supported in an Executive. I’m very surprised.
Let me suggest you take some time and study the National Emergencies Act of 1975, and then get back to me. It authorizes the president to use certain funds as he thinks proper.
JWK
The Democrat and Republican Leadership have conspired, for 35 years, to keep the border opened, and today’s Bill continues to allow and encourage illegal border crossings.
I’ve studied it. That is why I know this is going to go down in flames. But it has exposed something I would have never guessed in some supporting trashing the Constitution and turning over the power of the purse to the Executive Branch.
Since you seem to be privy to the NEA, why not point out where it authorizes the Executive to take already appropriated funds and re-appropriate them for a pet project.
After that, tell me why Democrats won’t be able to follow the exact same illogical claims and declare an emergency for Climate Change, and re-appropriate funds already appropriated by Congress for something else.
Personally, I hope every single lawyer filing suit includes this portion of Trump’s speech today, where he openly admits this isn’t an emergency situation, into their arguments. What better way to explain why this isn’t an emergency than to have the guy who declared a national emergency explain that it isn’t an emergency.
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Only if the enemy like the Russians or Chinese try to stop him, wait, sorry that would be some Democrats.
Why is it going to “go down in flames”? Be specific.
JWK
Do you really want single payer government operated health-care? Move into public housing [the projects], live there for a year, and then make your decision.
I heard nothing in the video where the President remotely suggests we don’t have an emergency on the southern border. I believe you are attaching your own interpretation to his words.
JWK
President Trump, by the terms of our Constitution, is empowered “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions”.
He literally says he didn’t have to do it this way - he could have built the wall over a longer period. He then went on to say he would rather build it quicker.
Something that you would merely “rather” do is a preference - not an emergency.
I take that to mean he could have continued pleading with Congress which would not have addressed the immediate and present danger of our border being invaded by thousands upon thousands of foreigners. Instead, he decided to use his emergency powers.
JWK
Reaching across the aisle and bipartisanship is the Democrat Party Leadership’s Newspeak to subvert the Constitution and screw the American People.
