Posted on 01/28/2019 3:42:48 PM PST by Hojczyk
Biggs is not referring to a national emergency declaration. Rather, as Conservative Review’s Daniel Horowitz has written, he’s talking about a section of law that would permit President Trump to construct roads and fences “to block drug smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States.”
From Horowitz:
[Trump’s] authority is even stronger in the field of combating drug smuggling, even without the declared health crisis. 10 U.S.C. § Section 284 allows the secretary of defense, upon request from federal or state law enforcement dealing with drug trafficking, and in conjunction with the secretary of state, to “provide support for the counterdrug activities or activities to counter transnational organized crime.” Subsection b(7) allows the DOD to provide help in the form of “construction of roads and fences and installation of lighting to block drug smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States.”
This is not some parsimonious loophole for an excuse to build a wall. This is the whole enchilada, folks. The main reason we need a wall is to combat the smugglers and the cartels who use the migration to bring in their contraband and dangerous criminals. Last October, the DOJ designated MS-13, Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), Sinaloa Cartel, and Clan del Golfo as transnational crime organizations (TCOs).
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This would be preferable. A court will still block it, but the USSC is more likely (IMHO) to lift any stay on this allowing construction to proceed.
The President has enormous latent authority (Lincoln, Wilson, FDR) but little actual Constitutional authority.
Congress can prevent almost any Presidential action, if it is determined - and this Congress is not going to allow a border wall, under any purported Presidential authority.
You know, years ago we couldn’t even get someone to listen when we said we wanted a wall.
Seriously, during the 90s and 2000s, we just had nobody to defend our nation. Buchanan was the closest, and he had no credibility nationwide, so our hopes languished.
Along comes Trump, and for the first time in my lifetime, we’re talking serious issues about building a wall on our Southern border.
There’s the all out National Emergency route to it. And now there’s this route to it. I wouldn’t be surprised if some enterprising folks who really wanted to, could find a number of ways to get this job done on just the president’s say-so.
If Obama can load pallets of cash and send it to Iran without Congressional votes, then Trump should be able to take action some way some how.
It is going to happen folks.
If he had any help in Congress at all, the wall would already be half done.
Congress could disappear overnight, and nobody with notice until the next general election.
“”The president probably is going to have to declare that [the border] is an active drug trafficking corridor pursuant to Title 10 of U.S. code, and if so, he’s going to have access to billions of dollars to build the wall, some roads, and infrastructure, I think.””
This should make sense to anyone with a functioning brain. Hope this congressman is right and hope that the president is listening..
Sounds good to me. Tell Congress up theirs and build the wall!
he should utilize each and every authority available
I was with you then and I am with you now. I said yesterday we have the Army Corps of Engineers, the Navy SeaBees, 12 billion floating in military spending and the unmet obligations of those companies like Boeing who have walked away with money for it all those years back. Guess what day it is? The day to get ‘er done!
Having worked 36 years in the federal government, including as a member of the SES, there are ways to reprogram funds within appropriations without violating Congessional fences built around various pots of money. And there is nothing the courts can do about it. Trump does not have to declare a national emergency.
Congress could disappear overnight, and nobody with notice until the next general election.
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Oh... people would notice. We’d have the biggest celebration in the history of the United States.
There should be some way to tap into those previous laws which approved money to build the wall - some extension or review process or evaluation program that would allow Trump to find a mere 5 billion somewhere and apply it to projects already undertaken but maybe not finalized - there’s got to be some bureaucratic legerdemain somewhere.....
We are getting our wall one way or another, and Democrats be damned.
Why the hell didn’t he do this in month 1?
Why can’t the president get hold of a pallet of $100 bills and send it down to the border to be spent? I don’t know how, but that is what his predecessor did (but sent it to Iran instead).
The wall will continue to be built. Thankfully, Pelosi is the leader of the Democrats and hopefully she will lead the Democrats all year. Why? She has divided, split and crushed the Democrats, just like Hillary.
BRILLIANT!
Ah, so this is why Ruthie has gone missing.
I would think that President Trump could also use confiscated money, etc. from DEA busts.
We lost 58,220 in Vietnam, mostly over eight years. We lost 418,000 in WW2 over four years. We lost 70,000 to Fentanyl alone last year. This is a national emergency, and there is no reason to work around stating that fact.
No sympathy here; using that crap is a CHOICE. Between executing drug dealers and a border wall, the stupid among us will be less able to CHOOSE to kill themselves.
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