We have One real national emergency that is, and many that aren't

American Thinker ^ | 02/19/2019 | Daniel G. Jones

[SeekAndFind]

Democrats are railing against President Trump's national emergency declaration authorizing the building of additional wall along our southern border. The passage of drugs, children, sex slaves, gangs, criminals, and asylum- and prosperity-seeking aliens across our border is "a manufactured crisis!" they cry in unison, and they charge the President with "overreaching."

Some add that an emergency implies urgency, yet Trump has done nothing for two years, therefore this is cannot be an emergency.

The prevailing law, the National Emergencies Act of 1976, doesn't define "emergency," so it's pretty much whatever a president says it is.

For guidance, we might look to what previous presidents have identified as national emergencies. Hurricane Katrina (2005) and the specter of a swine flu epidemic (2009) were emergencies. Those declarations ended after the dangers had passed. Many don't.

Twenty-eight emergencies currently remain in effect (they would lapse after a year without presidential renewal, which happens, apparently, over and over). Some reflect familiar perils: a declaration of national emergency against terrorism after 9/11, against North Korea for nuclear proliferation in 2008, and against China for cyberattacks in 2015. But many declarations remain in force for crises we can scarcely remember. Here are a few.

Currently, the U.S. is in a declared state of national emergency with Macedonia (since 2001), Zimbabwe (2003), Syria (2004), Belarus (2006), Democratic Republic of Congo (2006), Lebanon (2010), Somalia (2010), Yemen (2011), South Sudan (2014), Central African Republic (2014), Venezuela (2015), and Burundi (2015).

This must come as a surprise to most Americans. In what ways are Macedonia and Zimbabwe and Burundi currently threatening us? How much money have we spent and how many American lives have we lost in those countries? And are those foreign problems susceptible to a simple, straightforward solution, like a border wall?

[Redwood71]

This is really a deflection! The border wall is not an effort to create a project for the government. It is being built to protect American citizens from an illegal foreign invasion that has been happening now for over half a century. And if the media can display this this way, it just proves, since the libs and the media are the main source against it, that the liberals don’t care as much about the American citizens already in place as they do foreign criminals illegally trespassing on American sovereignty to increase their illegal voting base to stay in power. And every time an illegal gains a foothold, he increases the possibility of a criminal act by doing so. Just count the amount of illegals in the LA county jails if you don’t believe me.

rwood

[Amendment10]

"Some add that an emergency implies urgency, yet Trump has done nothing for two years, therefore this is cannot be an emergency."

The corrupt, anti-PDJT, anti-citizen Congress has wrongly obstructed the people's wall for two years.