baton rouge, louisiana, into the united states. and this isn t a national emergency? let s face it. most democrats know that this is a crisis. the sheer volume of crossers is overwhelming our facilities. liberals blame trump? when a migrant doesn t see a doctor immediately. as with their embrace of infanticide and reparations, medicare for all, democrats have gone far far left on immigration. then now, they are in effect for open borders. there are other options. ankle bracelets. other options to incarcerating and holding everybody by the thousands. there are programs that will enable people to go into our communities and to be able to be tracked in our communities. laura: what is that? they already put ankle break bracelets on a lot of the illegal immigrants and they team off.
time phil guy welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump is preparing to declare a national emergency to free up funds to build a wall on the mexican border and that s despite a bipartisan deal in congress that provided funding for this project mr trump has agreed to sign a bill in order to avert another government shutdown but he insisted the barrier along the border must be built citing drug and human trafficking concerns declaring a national emergencies like it s a lead to legal challenges opponents point out that most drugs arrive by points of app ports of entry and immigration numbers are far below historic peaks. so let s get more on this from the hell of the humphrey in washington political scientist a borisov foreman from bada college a here in welcome both let s start with you in the washington hello we ll start
right so what we understand as a national emergency usually and in the past forty three years since this law has been and that after the watergate scandal is something that would be a major terrorist attack it would be a major catastrophe and in the past that s what it s been used for to quickly take money for example from military budgets that s why in this case it specifically needs to be declared a national emergency a president can take money from other funds but when it comes to the military it must be declared a national emergency that we haven t seen it used in this way i was just taking a look through twitter feeds and in twenty fourteen when president trump wasn t president of course and barack obama tried to use the national emergency to take some funding. tweeted that this was unconstitutional it goes against that tenant of the separation of power which defines the american political system so presumably it s something that he is aware of of the potential legal challenges an
and yet at the same time another fight was raised on the horizon and that would be over the fact that the president now wants to declare a national emergency circumventing congress and then using that executive action to take money so that he can essentially spend eight billion dollars on a border wall so that is the status now that s what we re waiting for that s what senator mitch mcconnell said that the president would be doing yesterday mitch mcconnell said that he would support president trump in that that in that action but no sooner had he said that than there was all sorts of pushback already from democrats saying that this was unconstitutional that essentially the president was poised to commit what they called a gross abuse of power so what does a national emergency look like who gets to define it.
that the national emergency text has actually been on the books but it s course the wall is a key tenant of his campaign pledge he s already looking to twenty twenty he still promises that he s going to build the wall and it seems like this is the only way that he thinks that he s going to be able to achieve them and how the president s for this for this sort of action who gets to decide what a national emergency looks like. right so a national emergency is usually declared in the wake for example of a serious attack or a catastrophe it is something that the president can then decide on himself the text is an explicit about it but you know even republican senator susan collins from maine for example is saying that this likely would not constitute a national emergency trump insists that there is an emergency on the southern border migration experts who have been there say that this is not the case in one thousand nine hundred fifty s. there was a case with the steel mills when they were