Should Donald Trump Declare a National Emergency to Build the Wall?

merickson · 2019-01-07T03:43:28.594Z

WildRose:

You’d first have to have access to det cord and cross over to US soil to lay and set the charge.

You can be shot for that.

There’s the rub.
You need armed guards to watch the fence/wall/barrier. Enough of them close enough to every spot to quickly respond.
With that many guards, you don’t need a fancy fence. Barbed wire would work.

WildRose · 2019-01-07T04:14:29.388Z

The manpower needed to patrol the southern border effectively without very tall, hard to breach barriers would run upwards of 50-75,000 BPA’s.

With the barriers electronic, monitoring, surveillance and rapid deployment strike forces you cut that to a small fraction which is much more cost effective in the long term and much more effective overall.

Bodecea · 2019-01-07T04:17:08.082Z

johnwk2:

sikofit:

You remember it so well that you didn’t even get the right President (or decade).

The Secure Fence Act of 2003 was not negotiated by Reagan and it did indeed follow the Border Patrol recommendations

What I was referring to, and you know it, was the 1980s debate over amnesty and securing the border, and President Reagan giving into amnesty based upon a promise.

JWK

No…that’s not what you were referring to at all…I thought you said you remember it well because you were in D.C. for it…

WildRose · 2019-01-07T04:19:39.775Z

1986 Immigration Reform act.

Chris · 2019-01-07T05:21:49.194Z

Senator Gardner has already come out in support of ending the Government shutdown without border wall funding.

KUSA.com – 1 Mar 19

Gardner supports ending shutdown without border wall funding

Colorado's Republican Senator Cory Gardner is breaking with President Trump on the government shutdown, saying he wants the government to re-open without funding for a border wall.

WildRose · 2019-01-07T05:50:03.459Z

No surprise.

biggestal99 · 2019-01-07T07:57:38.906Z

Easy to maintain a hundred mile wall.

Lot harder with 2,000

Allan

WildRose · 2019-01-07T08:43:39.135Z

Israel has about a 10th or our population and maintains over 500 miles off wall made of less durable materials than are under consideration here.

The slats are about the same size and thickness as railroad iron.

With the types of materials being considered very little maintenance will be required.

It’s a specious argument at best.

carpe_diem · 2019-01-07T08:51:34.326Z

I think that if he has to, he will, and he’s got the guts to do it.

But should he? Not unless it’s the last resort, and he has to get the wall done,
and the Democrat Politicians aren’t willing to compromise with him what so ever
so he can get the funding and build it. Even if he has to give some other things up.

I think to Trumps voters and most true Conservatives throughout America
if Trump doesn’t get the Wall built that a Democrat would actually have a chance
to beat him in 2020 then.

WildRose · 2019-01-07T08:59:16.245Z

The unlawful use of explosives is a deadly threat. Unlawful possession of explosives is a felony. Arson, and Deadly Conduct are both felonies.

You may use deadly force to prevent any of the above.

Try showing up in public anywhere with explosives and an obvious intent to commit a crime with them and see what sort of response you get from LEO’s.

biggestal99 · 2019-01-07T09:00:45.378Z

Cost of maintaining is a good argument against 2000 mile wall.

Allam

WildRose · 2019-01-07T09:38:44.316Z

No, you obviously aren’t very familiar with DC.

It would take an enormous amount of it to cut through even one of those rails.

Arson is a deadly and forcible felony which justifies deadly force no matter what the intent of the arsonist is.

It’s also a terrorist act.

ComfortablyNumb · 2019-01-07T11:07:02.801Z

WildRose:

The border patrol records show exactly that.

MSN

Walls work.

In Israel where they’ve built their walls illegal entries are down by 99%.

A wall is a stupid waste of money. Period.

dantes · 2019-01-07T11:12:03.472Z

Can we all just stop and recognize there really isn’t any emergency at the border.

This is a manufactured crisis.

WildRose · 2019-01-07T11:40:29.602Z

? Our detention facilities are bursting, the immigration courts have a backlog of about 7 years.

If these surges and caravans of thousands keep charging the border Trump could legitimately declare an emergency since we cannot deal with them.

Let them start coming in multiple groups of hundreds or thousands per each spreading out across the border there’s no arguing it isn’t an emergency period.

WildRose · 2019-01-07T11:41:01.121Z

Everything we know about security shows different.

BlueTex · 2019-01-07T11:41:45.853Z

WildRose:

? Our detention facilities are bursting, the immigration courts have a backlog of about 7 years.

If these surges and caravans of thousands keep charging the border Trump could legitimately declare an emergency since we cannot deal with them.

Let them start coming in multiple groups of hundreds or thousands per each spreading out across the border there’s no arguing it isn’t an emergency period.

And funding a wall that will take years and years to build is the answer? I’m thinking that’s going to be a tough argument to make in court…

dantes · 2019-01-07T12:06:51.505Z

It’d be an emergency if his own making.

Are border crossings increasing or decreasing?

ComfortablyNumb · 2019-01-07T12:43:43.287Z

WildRose:

Everything we know about security shows different.

No it doesn’t. Even where we have a wall/fence it has been breached over 10,000 times. A wall is a stupid waste of money that most Americans just don’t want.

And no one who wants it can even explain how the $5B would even be spent. Including the administration. It’s a joke.

CaughtInTheMiddle · 2019-01-07T13:14:42.308Z

Let me see if I can get this straight…

It wasn’t a national emergency (that required executive order) when he first took office). It wasn’t a national emergency (that required executive order) during his first 2 years in office with a Republican Congress. And two years later it’s suddenly a national emergency. Do I have that right?