Congress passed a resolution. It blocks Mr. Trump’s Emergency declaration on the Southern Border. In his veto signing remarks, Mr. Trump observed that “Congress’s vote to deny the crisis on the southern border is a vote against reality. It’s against reality. It is a tremendous national emergency. It is a tremendous crisis.”
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What reality?
The danger is so significant that a years-long political narrative sprung from it. Candidates on both sides run for office on it. What to do about the opioid crisis. The answer to which has been spending more of your money and allowing it to get worse.
There are other significant issues on the border. Human trafficking for example. New Hampshire started a task force to address concerns about that. But don’t let that inspire any sort of legisaltive action (Democrat Delegation) to stop it. And why would they? The alternative is a perennial crisis, more taxes, and more government.
Advancing your agenda on the symptoms because treating the disease is less politically advantageous.
So, Congress is going about this all wrong. They gave the President this authority many decades ago. Singling out this man and this declaration is no different than judges blocking executive actions issued to repeal previous executive actions.
Obama’s phone and pen cannot have any more legal or constitutional authority that Mr. Trump’s.
The problem shouldn’t be that Mr. Trump wants to fix these problems it is that Congress does not, will not, or cannot.
Last month, more than 76,000 illegal migrants arrived at our border. We’re on track for a million illegal aliens to rush our borders. People hate the word “invasion,” but that’s what it is. It’s an invasion of drugs and criminals and people.
Border Declarations of Convenience
Opponents are not new to the idea of border trafficking. Liberal cities blame gun-crimes on the transfer of weapons across local borders or neighboring states with “loose” gun laws. The Obama administration ran-guns across the border into Mexico to create a crisis to facilitate domestic gun control legislation. The same administration created the current crisis by “running” gangs and drugs back into the United States via open-border executive actions and public policy.
Congress and a previous president create all of these problems.
So, there is more than one emergency. The president can’t do much about the make-up of Congress nor should he. But where Congress refuses to act, and they’ve had plenty of time to do so, the President has the authority, given him by Congress, to do something.
That’s not to say that I approve of the power.
You Made Me First
Congress likes to go about the business of allowing others to do its business. Handing off authority and oversight to the executive branch. Be it agency rules or presidential declarations. They do it to wash their hands of the political consequences of what will inevitably follow. In most cases, they feel like those outcomes will advance their goals. But Mr. Trump is a disruptor.
That’d be why he won his election.
The entire political establishment has been out to get him ever since.
Fixing Mr. Trump is more important to them than fixing the border crisis.
Voters should be paying attention.
