Posted on 07/27/2017 1:07:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on the House's $788 billion spending measure (all times local):
2:30 p.m.
The Republican-led House has voted to make a $1.6 billion down payment for President Donald Trump's long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The vote was 230-196. Republican leaders avoided voting directly on the divisive issue Thursday. Instead, they tucked the wall provision into a broader procedural vote.....
(Excerpt) Read more at hudsonvalley.news12.com ...
Good. It’s about time.
Can't imagine all the money we have already saved just by the lessening of border jumpers...by something like 40%.
Not enough, though. The demons among them are still coming, I am sure.
While the media plays up the Trump Sessions feud things seem to be moving.
no bias there ...
Just don’t make a Deeping Wall. That was bad...
A Deeping Wall?
I’ll have to look that one up.
Heck if threat of enforcing our immigration laws have caused the border crossing rate to drop 70%, then it will be interesting to see what an actual wall will do.
I bet that you could build a 10 foot >wide< wall would knock it down another 20%. Just the fear of enforcement is enough.
And now, onto the likes of McCain, Grahamnesty, Murkowski, Collins.
Apparently, expecting people to follow the law is divisive.
Sorry, LOTR reference.
Arresting them and punishing them when they flout the law is also apparently “divisive’. It certainly seems to divide patriots from traitors.
Funny thing, the Democrats voted FOR building a wall, after 9-11, but then refused to put funding in to actually BUILD the wall! Now the wall is an evil thing that shouldn’t be built - political birdie?!?
You know, this reminds me of something that recently happened in the Senate..oh, what was it, oh yeah...just of like the Republicans who voted to REPEAL Obamacare, when they knew Obama would veto them - political birdie?!?
In other words, it’s all lip-service, all the time, because By God we need to win elections to make changes - that we don’t actually intend to make!!
I would laugh, but I’m too pissed about this complete lack of gonads, backbones and honor on the part of almost ever damn politician!!
Worst of all, both Republicans and Democrats have allowed it to happen and maybe even encouraged it.
More winning!
President Trump has tools outside direct funding for the border wall. He can declare an emergency on the US-Mexican border, call up the National Guard, direct them to shoot anyone crossing the border while at the same time constructing a fence to prevent invasion. NO FUNDING NEEDED. Law enforcement and arrests would still be conducted by ICE.
Lastly,, in certain cases the National Guard may be also activated and federalized by Title 10 authority. Article I, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution allows the federal government to call the Guard into federal service in order to execute the laws of the Union, to suppress insurrection, and to repel invasion. Under U.S. Code, Title 10, section 12304, the president can call up to 200,000 reserve troops, including the National Guard, into federal service in order to “augment active forces for any operational mission.” While federalized, the combatant commanders of their respective theatres – and ultimately the president – control the National Guard units. Serving under the president in a federal status, these forces may perform domestic or expeditionary missions. However, even when not federalized the National Guard still has a federal mission to maintain properly trained and equipped units, available for prompt mobilization.
Title 10 & Posse Comitatus In a purely federal status under Title 10, National Guard members are stripped from their domestic policing powers and are subject to the Posse Comitatus Act, which was passed during the Reconstruction Era to prevent the Army from engaging in civil law enforcement activities. Specifically, its intent was to end the use of the Army to police elections in former Confederate states. One of the few exceptions to the restrictions of the Posse Comitatus Act is the invocation of the rarely used Insurrection Act of 1807, which empowers the president to suspend Posse Comitatus and employ federal forces, including the National Guard, within the United States to “suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.”
Source https://www.domesticpreparedness.com/preparedness/the-history-reality-of-the-national-guard/
Since the wall funding was originally appropriated in 2005 it’s ABOUT DAMN TIME.
The senate will find a way to lose. I am sick of all 100 of them.
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