Posted on 02/12/2019 3:13:08 PM PST by SleeperCatcher
Americans who continue to hold out hope that Leftist Democrats are going to compromise with POTUS Donald Trump and Republicans over border security legislation that includes funding adequate enough to construct the kind of physical fencing or walls necessary to thwart illegal immigration and drug smuggling are living in a fantasy world.
It’s not going to happen.
Never mind that once upon a time Democrats appeared to support border security when they voted for legislation that funded the construction of hundreds of miles of fencing and substantial barriers. That was then. The Democratic Party today is not the same as it was even just a few years ago. Today, it is openly anti-American, brazen in its disdain not just for the president but the legions of voters who put him in office.
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Gavin Newsome didn’t want to be upstaged by Michelle Lujan-Grisholm.
Can’t the POTUS federalize the Natl. Guardsmen?
They are criminals protecting the criminal empire and don’t give a F about us
I have that feeling, that one must follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to determine the real reason. $$$$$$$$ Rules all!
Yes.
Another thing...the National Guard are routinely paid by the Army and the Air Force, not by the states. When a state wants to use them for a state mission (fires, floods, etc.), then they will pay.
a pyrrhic victory for the Left, at best
the death of the Republic, at its worst
That was a good book. It needs to make a comeback.
Trump has been given his justification to declare a national emergency.
Under the U.S. Constitution, each state’s National Guard unit is controlled by the governor in time of peace but can be called up for federal duty by the president, and in a “national emergency”. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 forbids U.S. troops from being deployed on American soil for law enforcement.
As CIC, Trump can send Regular Troops to protect our border.
> Can’t the POTUS federalize the Natl. Guardsmen? <
He can, under certain conditions. But he shouldn’t. It would set a bad precedence. The Guard is normally under state control, and that’s how it should be. This is an important check against tyranny from DC.
In fact, I’d like to see a law that prohibits the President from calling up the Guard, period. That power should be given to Congress.
What Trump can - and should - do is send in federal troops to replace those Guard troops.
The National Guard is probably 98% paid and equipped with federal money.
Maybe the Republican party ought to hire buses and load the illegals up at the border and drop them off in front of the Governor’s mansion and tell them that is where they can stay tonight.
treasonous, yes...but all Pdjt has to do is nationalize the guard troops he needs
Pull every last dime of federal funding from these states.
More evidence for the emergency case.
“F” the dems and “F” the repubs too on the so called compromise deal they sent the President to sign...
Mitch you are a weasel you little “s”
the GOPe are all cowards and they are very happy for the open border and the delima that TRUMP is now in...hate this govt and the whole system of the senate and house and the lousy support “lack of” for the principles the “people” voted for in 2016!
You must be right, because they are called NATIONAL guard, not STATE guard.
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