Veto Congressional Fecklessness on the Border Emergency

2019-03-06

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This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is expected today to join the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives in rejecting President Trump’s declaration that conditions at our porous southern border constitute a national emergency. Bad timing. Border Patrol data released yesterday shows that intercepts of family units and unaccompanied minors illegally coming across from Mexico is up nearly 100% over the same period last year. And that’s just the numbe...

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is expected today to join the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives in rejecting President Trump’s declaration that conditions at our porous southern border constitute a national emergency.

Bad timing. Border Patrol data released yesterday shows that intercepts of family units and unaccompanied minors illegally coming across from Mexico is up nearly 100% over the same period last year. And that’s just the number that have been caught. The number that weren’t is far higher.

Worse yet, we do not exercise operational control of either side of the border. The drug cartels do, enabling them to traffic people, narcotics and other deadly contraband at will.

President Trump is right. We have a true national emergency on our hands. He must, therefore, protect his declaration, and us, by vetoing this latest example of dangerous and delusional congressional fecklessness.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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