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Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says

posted by martyb on Friday February 15 2019, @03:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the President's-precedents dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

"President Trump will sign the border security compromise package on Capitol Hill to avert another government shutdown and will take the extraordinary step of declaring a national emergency to obtain funding for the border wall, the White House announced Thursday."

https://foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-says-trump-prepared-to-sign-border-security-bill-and-will-declare-national-emergency

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @04:34AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @04:34AM (#801401)

    What would make you happy? no really, I'm interested. He's trying to fulfill his promise to build a wall and no, it doesn't look like the Mexicans will pay for it.
    Although, maybe they should, because apparently, they have enough money to hire pilots to fly them over. Or to build mile+ long tunnels, or to hire boats and organize caravans and pay the media to look favorably upon them. They have enough money and resources to completely bypass the *useless* wall and walls never kept anyone out anyway.

    So yea. How would you manage the borders? If you don't believe in borders, you don't believe in the United States of America and I'm ashamed to call you a fellow citizen, because somehow, somewhere, some way, you came to the conclusion that an organized system that tries to be fair, and just, and stand up for what's right in the world (mostly), shouldn't exist. You can't have a country without borders. You can't have a country unless those borders are managed. You can't manage without *doing* something to define those borders. And when FOREIGN NON-USA PEOPLE abuse and overrun the borders WE manage. WE, The People of the United States of America NEED to stand up and bring order to the chaos and manage our borders.

    So what would make you happy?

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday February 15 2019, @04:45AM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday February 15 2019, @04:45AM (#801405) Journal

    What would make you happy? no really, I'm interested. He's trying to fulfill his promise to build a wall and no, it doesn't look like the Mexicans will pay for it.

    So I count two promises in that sentence. How do we determine which are the real promises and which are the pretend promises?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @08:39AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @08:39AM (#801459)

      Look, if you like your wall, you get to keep it.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Friday February 15 2019, @06:07PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Friday February 15 2019, @06:07PM (#801688) Journal

    What would make you happy?

    An end to the war on drugs, which is presently the fundamental cause of most problems at the border. As well as throughout our society.

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    You come from dust. You return to dust. That's
    why I don't dust. Might have been a friend.