We will look at the history of such declarations and the awesome powers they give the commander in chief. And bring back our girls, remember the intense anger over the kidnapping of almost 300 Nigerian School girls . Bring back our girls. Remember the feverish demands to get them back . Well, some 100 of those girls are still missing. We have not forgotten. But first here is my take. Watching the struggle over funding for a border wall im struck by the way in which in one sense donald trump has already achieved success. He has been able to conjure up a crisis out of thin air, elevate this manufactured emergency to national attention, paralyze the government and perhaps now even invoke warlike authority and bypass congress. He may still fail, but it should worry us that a president , any president , can do what trump has done. Lets be clear, there is no crisis. The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States has been declining for a decade. The number of people caught trying