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
open border in the e.u. border but it can cause what was it like before very quickly i mean the border with established in the one thousand twenty s. and then right up into the nine hundred fifty s. there was fairly loose customs arrangements not so much of the so this late in the northern side were relatively loose then when the troubles flared up in the late sixty s and then threat the seventy s the british army came in over at the time the coast times came down gradually with shared membership between the u.k. and ireland of the of the e.c. at the time both the troubles continue to get worse so it became a heavily militarized border i can remember as a child and the nineties you had to cross an army checkpoint any time you want to cross that border which has over two hundred roads by the way there was roads that were unapproved and so on so forth at this stage though over the last twenty years since as you mention the peace agreement the good friday agreement the border has become e