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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: 2) by hoeferbe on Friday February 15 2019, @01:58PM (2 children)

    by hoeferbe (4715) on Friday February 15 2019, @01:58PM (#801529)
    physicsmajor [soylentnews.org] wrote [soylentnews.org]:

    Physical barriers demonstrably reduce illegal crossings. Like a lock on your home, everything is at some level delay and/or illusion - social engineering, lockpicking, breaking a window instead - someone determined can gain entry.

    Yes, but how how effective would Trump's wall be versus the cost?

    Watch: 110 migrants use ladder to scale border wall in Arizona [tucson.com]

    And is illegal boarder crossings ("entries without inspection" [EWI]) really the source of the USA's number of illegal immigrants?

    Visa Overstays Outnumber Illegal Border Crossings, Trend Expected to Continue [nbcnews.com]

    In fairness, I must note that despite the NBC News article's headline, I don't really see the proof in its text of the assertion that visa overstays outnumber EWIs.  They just parrot the ~40% visa overstay number and never give a percentage for EWIs.  The same is true of other online news reports that I found.  Still, I assume EWIs must be less than 40% or it wouldn't have made the news.

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  • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:18AM (1 child)

    by deimtee (3272) on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:18AM (#801943) Journal

    That 110 migrants story doesn't make the point that the wall is useless, quite the contrary in fact. They caught the 110 because of the wall.

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    • (Score: 2) by hoeferbe on Sunday February 17 2019, @03:20PM

      by hoeferbe (4715) on Sunday February 17 2019, @03:20PM (#802518)
      You make a good point that I had not considered:  that the wall, while not stopping them, slowed the immigrants down enough to get caught. (Though I also wonder how many of that 110 were seeking asylum, and thus wanted to be caught.) Thanks for bringing this up!