Congress IS MANDATED to protect our borders, a job they have little interest in doing. IMO, that is authority to spend to build said wall.
“Getting Mexico to pay for the wall only works in bizarro world which apparently we are now in!”
Tax every send-$-home and Mexico WILL be paying for it.
I’m also for the termination of all taxpayer bribe-$ (aka foreign ‘aide’). Terminate, one time out-lay to build and it will help keep other costs down (HCare, schools, enforcement, etc.). Win-Win-Win.
Course, if they followed the Const. to begin, the debate would be moot (no welfare, no ‘free’ schools...no reason to come).
With all due respect i_robot73, that attitude is why we are now cursed with an unconstitutionally big federal government that walks on us daily.
In fact, note that the Constitutions Clause 12 of Section 8 of Article I is a constitutional check against a standing army, the Founding States never intending for the US to have a standing army that polices the world like it does now imo.
Justice Joseph Story had commented about security problems with a standing army.
Justice Joseph Story: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 12