house Bill H.R. 522
Prohibiting the Use of a National Emergency to Get Funds for a Border Wall
Argument in favor
President Trump’s threat of a national emergency declaration to get money to build his promised southern border wall would be an example of unconstitutional executive overreach if he were to follow through. This bill would make it impossible for Trump to use a national emergency to get his border wall, taking away the reasons for him to declare a national emergency.
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02/09/2019
Rational people understand that a wall will not solve any of the issues brought up by this administration. We need immigration reform and a way to help the countries that asylum seekers are fleeing to alleviate h reasons they are fleeing in such high numbers. Until those issues are fixed we will continue to see people seeking asylum. Our duty is to assist them not turn them away and certainly not to kidnap their children.
02/09/2019
Funds that are appropriated to help people who are actually suffering should not be hijacked to fulfill a campaign promise.
02/09/2019
Trump is the representation of a failed and useless political Party (GOP / Nationalist). The only ideas they come up with are senseless ones geared to exite their base who cannot, or have no desire to understand whether it is a real solution or not. To secure our southern border we need a multifaceted approach to include fencing, drone and satellite monitoring, a barrier wall (in sections where other methods aren't feasible), patrols, security enhancements at legal ports of entry (where illegal drugs, with the exception of Marijuana come in) and addressing the situations in the countries immigrants are fleeing. These people are fleeing violence and poverty for a better life in America, same as immigrants have done since our founding. They should not be vilified. Screen out the criminals and welcome the good people. Don't let the Statue of Liberty become a meaningless work of art.
Argument opposed
Presidents have the right to declare a national emergency and marshal resources to protect America’s national security. This includes declaring a national emergency to build a border wall. Passage of this bill would eliminate an important tool in the presidential toolkit and may not be constitutional.
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02/09/2019
How about spending the original $200 billion Obama signed to build wall
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02/09/2019
Hell no we need the wall everyone who lives there, ICE, the Border Patrol. Home Land Security ALL say we need the wall!! But since Trump wants to build it the Media and the crooked politicians don’t want it. Every last president has said there was a problem but they blame Trump for making this up. PEOPLE OPEN YOUR DAMN EYES!!!
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02/09/2019
This is an unconstitutional overreach. #BuildTheDamnWall and stop screwing the American people who are put in danger by Democrat politicians
Rational people understand that a wall will not solve any of the issues brought up by this administration. We need immigration reform and a way to help the countries that asylum seekers are fleeing to alleviate h reasons they are fleeing in such high numbers. Until those issues are fixed we will continue to see people seeking asylum. Our duty is to assist them not turn them away and certainly not to kidnap their children.
How about spending the original $200 billion Obama signed to build wall
Funds that are appropriated to help people who are actually suffering should not be hijacked to fulfill a campaign promise.
Trump is the representation of a failed and useless political Party (GOP / Nationalist). The only ideas they come up with are senseless ones geared to exite their base who cannot, or have no desire to understand whether it is a real solution or not. To secure our southern border we need a multifaceted approach to include fencing, drone and satellite monitoring, a barrier wall (in sections where other methods aren't feasible), patrols, security enhancements at legal ports of entry (where illegal drugs, with the exception of Marijuana come in) and addressing the situations in the countries immigrants are fleeing. These people are fleeing violence and poverty for a better life in America, same as immigrants have done since our founding. They should not be vilified. Screen out the criminals and welcome the good people. Don't let the Statue of Liberty become a meaningless work of art.
Hell no we need the wall everyone who lives there, ICE, the Border Patrol. Home Land Security ALL say we need the wall!! But since Trump wants to build it the Media and the crooked politicians don’t want it. Every last president has said there was a problem but they blame Trump for making this up. PEOPLE OPEN YOUR DAMN EYES!!!
Americans and their tax dollars must not be held hostage by the poorly considered plans of a single branch of government. This is not how our Founders created this country, and this behavior must not be allowed.
Let me be crystal clear: Most Americans realize there is no emergency. Most Americans DO NOT want any funding to go toward building Trump’s medieval wall. It’s nothing but a symbol of hatred and division. And besides, it is not an effective means for achieving even its stated goal. Congress should ABSOLUTELY reject a planned Trump emergency as nothing more than his attempt to work around Congress. No. No. No. A thousand times no.
This is an unconstitutional overreach. #BuildTheDamnWall and stop screwing the American people who are put in danger by Democrat politicians
That is correct. No emergency funds for a wall. The next thing Republicans will want to do, is to declare a national emergency around their children’s schools, stating they need emergency funds to keep people of color or other religions out of their kid’s schools.
I’m offended when people say that all rational people are against building a wall. I’m rational and I understand that a border without a barrier is not secure.
Funny no one made that accusation about Obama Clinton or any other BS Democrats when they suggested a border wall barrier. So oddly now all of a sudden it’s a big deal, and so where do we go from here. If the Democrats get their way according to Cortez who is ignorant and promoting socialism I wonder what kind of wall will be required to wall us all in so that we’re made to comply. Think about it that’s exactly what will happen. I guess it depends on what side of the wall you want to be on.
The democrats are blinded by their Trump hate. For them obstruction is more important than our security.
No I’m pretty sure if something is a problem and it needs to be addressed America should deal with it and not just not deal with it because their party isn’t in power.
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There is no “national emergency” poor people trying to seek asylum is not a threat. This is all based on childish xenophobia. The real national emergency is that we’ve allowed the incarceration industrial complex to start making money off of keeping CHILDREN IN PRISON.
This is an Executive branch function that would affect all Presidents to come, not just the current one they hate in the Whitehouse now. Although, it also concerns me that once utilized for something like this, then an Uber leftist President—Something I never thought I’d see in my lifetime, but now realize is quite possible—could use it, I don’t know, to go after everyone’s guns in some major confiscation effort. Then we really will be like Venezuela! Let’s hope that they don’t leave our President with any other choice in securing the border.
Dangerous bill. In a crisis we need our President to be able to act.
Whether you are for the border wall or not, this is not the way to go about getting it done. Congress needs to figure out what they want to do and then the President needs to carry out their wishes whatever they end up being.