Tag: Trump’s Border Wall ‘Emergency

NOVANEWS By Anthony D. Romero USA Today   Donald Trump‘s emergency declaration is a blatant abuse of power in the service of his anti-immigrant agenda. No president has ever tried this before. *** President Donald Trump declared a “national emergency” on Friday to pay for his border wall. In doing so, he’s violating the law, subverting the Constitution and hurting American communities. That’s why we’re taking him to court. We all know what an emergency really is. It’s when something unexpected and dangerous happens that requires an immediate response. Trump himself admitted that there is no emergency when he said, “I didn’t need to do this.” Trump added that his reason for the declaration was that he wanted to build the wall “much faster.” But that’s not how our democratic syste...