Remember the National Emergency Declaration?

They suffer from a mental disease.

I pray for their lost souls and minds every day.

Rand Paul sided with the Democrats.

What? 3 months ago the Democrats in Congress sues the president of the United Stares and claimed that he was wrong when he declared a National Emergency created by a flood of illegal aliens caravaning across the desert.

Today the Democrats are on TV blaming Trump for the Emergency resulting from a flood of illegal aliens caravanning across the dessert, but failing to explain where we’re supposed to put 100000 people caravaning across the dessert to come to the country illegally.

Were they wrong 3 months ago when they said there was no emergency? Or are they wrong now? In either case, they’re ducking futs.

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Look, I'm against using the picture of the dead family to score cheap points,

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No you’re not.

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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.

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

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I’ll play along. What would support declaring an emergency?

Terrorists? Undocumented individuals flooding in? 20,000 men a month?

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

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"Thats just, like your opinion, man" gif

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What would support declaring an emergency?

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I don't mind so much the emergency declaration as I do the stupidity of building the wall. Trump's position on immigration was much more valuable when that was just a rhetorical tool. In fact, it was a near can't-lose given how unhinged the left's "rebuttals" are. But he severely diluted its effect when he disastrously tried to push forward with physical funding and construction of the wall.