re: Remember the National Emergency Declaration?

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Last month: he can’t do this. There’s no emergency.

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The claim was that there was no need for a wall because the "emergency" is vastly overstated. The claim was that the number of attempted crossings was sharply down in recent years.

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Today: there’s an emergency, look at this dead father and his kid. Trump is bad.

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Everyone has recognized the growing problem (inside the overall shrinking problem) of kids showing up at the border - often by themselves.

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Trump is bad.

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As I said, I agree that it has been despicable to show up on the Senate floor with a picture of this poor dead family to score cheap political points. The stats show that the number of deaths at the border (hundreds per year - it's not like it's a new problem) has also been shrinking (obviously makes sense given the fact that the number of attempted crossings has dropped precipitously since it's highwater mark under Obama.)

But none of that supports declaring an emergency to build a wall.

Same with violent crime. Trump talks as if crime is high and going higher, when in fact it is precipitously lower than its peak 25 years ago.