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What to Watch for in Trump’s National Address on Immigration
• The southern border wall is merely a campaign promise Donald Trump made to his political support base.
• Trump stated 92 times during his election campaign that "Mexico would pay for the wall." (a Trump campaign lie)
• Declaring the southern border to be in a "crisis" or a "national emergency" does not make it so.
• Trump ordered a stop to asylum applications on the southern border. (overturned by a Federal judge)
• Parents and children are separated at the border by CBP and DHS cannot always adequately locate incarcerated children. (at one point DHS lost 1,500 children)
• US Big Pharma dumped millions of opioid pills in US pharmacies triggering the opioid addiction epidemic. (Trump ignores this)
• Most illegals in the US enter via airports and overstay their visas. (Trump ignores this)
• The US State Dept. says no terrorists have been apprehended trying to enter the US at the southern border. (Trump lied about this)
• None of the border state Senators want Trumps wall.
• No, none of the recent living or deceased US presidents ever told Trump they wished they had built a wall. (a Trump lie)
• The Trump administration has spent less than 50% of Congressional funds appropriated for border security in May, 2018. (crickets on this from Trump)
• Illegal border crossings have actually declined during the past five years. (Trump ignores the statistics)
• The Trump administration has not filled 7,500 CBP officer positions. (silence on this from Trump)
• Most trafficked females/children enter the US via plane and ship.
• Trumps $5 Billion vanity wall demand is for a 13th century solution to 21st century problem. Walls are easily circumvented.
• The US government could be 98% funded tomorrow if Trump wanted it to be. Border security funding could then be negotiated separately.
• Polls state that the majority of Americans do not want Trumps wall built and do not believe it to be worth a government shutdown.
• Trump is holding government services and government employee paychecks hostage until he gets his way - his legacy wall.
• Start protesting in front of the White House en-mass to end this Trump-fabricated government shutdown.
1/8/19
Saying a situation is a crisis does not make it so, but Mr. Trump and other senior administration officials have been using the word repeatedly in recent days. They point to a direct connection between the flow of drugs from Mexico and the opioid epidemic in the United States. They say that migrants, particularly women and children, are victims of crime as they journey to the United States. And Mr. Trump has also strongly suggested that terrorists may be slipping across the border. These threats are greatly exaggerated, if not fabricated. Migrant border crossings have been declining for nearly two decades. The majority of heroin enters the United States through legal ports of entry, not through open areas of the border. Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes in the United States than native-born Americans. The State Department said in a recent report that there is “no credible evidence” that terrorist groups had sent operatives to enter the United States through Mexico.
Of the “10 individuals on the terrorist watch list” stopped daily by the Department of Homeland Security, most were attempting to enter by air travel. Of the “10 individuals on the terrorist watch list” stopped daily by the Department of Homeland Security, most were attempting to enter by air travel. A recent analysis from the libertarian Cato Institute found that of 45,000 “special interest aliens” caught at the border since 2007, none has committed terrorist attacks. Representative Vicente Gonzalez, Democrat of Texas, told the newspaper that a border wall was not the answer. “I would remind the president that there are 7,500 open positions with Customs and Border Protection that have not been filled, and that this should be their top priority,” Mr. Gonzalez said in a statement Monday. “With updated resources, technology and more Border Patrol agents, Customs officers and agriculture inspectors, we can keep this nation prosperous and protect our citizens from those who wish to harm us,” he said.
• The southern border wall is merely a campaign promise Donald Trump made to his political support base.
• Trump stated 92 times during his election campaign that "Mexico would pay for the wall." (a Trump campaign lie)
• Declaring the southern border to be in a "crisis" or a "national emergency" does not make it so.
• Trump ordered a stop to asylum applications on the southern border. (overturned by a Federal judge)
• Parents and children are separated at the border by CBP and DHS cannot always adequately locate incarcerated children. (at one point DHS lost 1,500 children)
• US Big Pharma dumped millions of opioid pills in US pharmacies triggering the opioid addiction epidemic. (Trump ignores this)
• Most illegals in the US enter via airports and overstay their visas. (Trump ignores this)
• The US State Dept. says no terrorists have been apprehended trying to enter the US at the southern border. (Trump lied about this)
• None of the border state Senators want Trumps wall.
• No, none of the recent living or deceased US presidents ever told Trump they wished they had built a wall. (a Trump lie)
• The Trump administration has spent less than 50% of Congressional funds appropriated for border security in May, 2018. (crickets on this from Trump)
• Illegal border crossings have actually declined during the past five years. (Trump ignores the statistics)
• The Trump administration has not filled 7,500 CBP officer positions. (silence on this from Trump)
• Most trafficked females/children enter the US via plane and ship.
• Trumps $5 Billion vanity wall demand is for a 13th century solution to 21st century problem. Walls are easily circumvented.
• The US government could be 98% funded tomorrow if Trump wanted it to be. Border security funding could then be negotiated separately.
• Polls state that the majority of Americans do not want Trumps wall built and do not believe it to be worth a government shutdown.
• Trump is holding government services and government employee paychecks hostage until he gets his way - his legacy wall.
• Start protesting in front of the White House en-mass to end this Trump-fabricated government shutdown.