UPDATE: President Trump will sign the bill and declare a national emergency tomorrow.
#BREAKING @senatemajldr: "I've just had an opportunity to speak with President Trump…he's prepared to sign the bill. He will also be issuing a national emergency declaration at the same time." pic.twitter.com/FWpYPNwZKX
— The Columbia Bugle ?? (@ColumbiaBugle) February 14, 2019
.@PressSec: President Trump will sign the government funding bill, and as he has stated before, he will also take other executive action—including a national emergency—to ensure we stop the national security and humanitarian crisis at the border.
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 14, 2019
The President is once again delivering on his promise to build the wall, protect the border, and secure our great country.
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 14, 2019
In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump sold himself as the author of The Art of the Deal and as one of the greatest deal makers of our lifetimes. Last year around this time, he vowed that he would never sign another spending bill as awful as the 2018 Omnibus:
“Congress faces a critical test Thursday as both chambers will vote on a giant funding deal that would temporarily end a long-running border dispute and avert another humiliating government shutdown.
The $328 billion package — which funds one-quarter of the government — is the result of roughly two weeks of frenetic talks between Democratic and Republican negotiators from both chambers.
Top GOP spending leaders insist they’ve kept close contact with the White House throughout the talks but have offered no promise that President Donald Trump would back the measure.
In a show of Congress’s desperation to keep the government funded past Friday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) began Senate business Thursday morning with a prayer that Trump would sign the bill.“Let’s all pray the president will have wisdom to sign the bill so the government doesn’t shut down,” Grassley said, just before reciting the daily Pledge of Allegiance. …”
What has the GOP Congress come up with this year?
Sen. Chuck Grassley: "Let's all pray that the President will have wisdom to sign the bill, so the government doesn’t shut down." https://t.co/khiacI6ggx pic.twitter.com/7iA40DC73w
— The Hill (@thehill) February 14, 2019
– A new potential pathway to an unlimited amnesty through sponsorship of illegal aliens:
Lots of bad but swallowable stuff in $ bill. But Sec.224 is a poison pill: Gives deportation immunity to any sponsor—or POTENTIAL sponsor—of an "unaccompanied" alien child. Creates incentive for illegals already here to order up kids from Central America (or anywhere). Outrageous
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) February 14, 2019
This is huge and I missed it in my original reading of the text. The gives deportation immunity, defacto amnesty, to any sponsor or potential sponsor of an unaccompanied alien child. https://t.co/T78l5IoElO
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 14, 2019
This bill is tantamount to an illegal immigration “stimulus” — de facto amnesty to any “sponsor,” family member or “potential sponsor” of an unaccompanied minor. #ChainMigrationAmnesty
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) February 14, 2019
– A decimation of interior enforcement:
I was ready to roll over & take the 55 miles too, but then I read Sec. 224 (a), which cripples interior enforcement & will cause a surge of young illegal border crossers. Trump can't sign that.
WH 202 456 1414
CONGRESS 202 224 3121
SENATE PHONE LIST: https://t.co/ICON0sObTk https://t.co/NXSjNyjMXK— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 14, 2019
Expands the Alternatives to Detention program from 82,000 to 100,000… so instead of housing family units at the border- they get moved into the interior where they almost always stay in the country permanently.
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 14, 2019
– 55 miles of bollard fencing, which is to say, vehicle barriers:
– The vehicle barriers are specifically limited to the Rio Grande sector of the border:
Border "Wall" construction is only allowed in the Rio Grande Valley Sector pic.twitter.com/xXE4BJFZdE
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 14, 2019
– This area was chosen because local Democratic governments will have the power to veto construction:
Here is the provision that appears to give local officials authority to block. Remember, the authorization to construct is only in the RGV of Texas. The RGV is some of the most liberal counties in the entire country (wonder why?). pic.twitter.com/yN2hXUppUR
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) February 14, 2019
Thus, they brilliantly limited the wall to just the area with liberal politics and then gave them veto power. For example, if they would do this in Cochise County, AZ, local officials would obviously support the wall. But this bill doesnt authorize wall there.
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) February 14, 2019
– The bill offers TWICE as much for refugee assistance as for the potential vehicle barriers:
Refugee Assistance — $3.4 billion, which is $73 million above the FY2018
enacted level and $632 million above the President’s budget request.MORE THAN DOUBLE THE MONEY FOR THE WALL, HOORAY!!!!!!!https://t.co/CrMvezkQia
— The Columbia Bugle ?? (@ColumbiaBugle) February 14, 2019
– The bill prohibits Trump from building any new fencing in any of the following areas:
here are the areas Trump cannot build any wall pic.twitter.com/q2porHboEI
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 14, 2019
Oh it gets even better, the $1.37 billion allocated for “physical barriers” only allows “fencing designs in use as of 2017.”
Oh and super epic: “prohibits construction on sensitive environmental areas”
Wow, great job fellas. I’m glad the plants and animals will be ok! pic.twitter.com/jytSRIMSSR
— The Columbia Bugle ?? (@ColumbiaBugle) February 14, 2019
– The bill forbids Trump from building anything resembling the border wall prototypes that were built in California:
The bill gives $1.375 billion for constructing a "wall"/pedestrian fencing pic.twitter.com/K1VOvTpZCT
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 14, 2019
They can only be used to make steel bollard design… no concrete wall, no prototypes. Same thing as what Bush and Obama built… just a little bit taller pic.twitter.com/2jn2arTOWk
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 14, 2019
– The bill expands catch and release by cutting ICE detention beds:
The bill DOES expand Catch and Release by reducing the number of border beds from 49,060 to 40,520
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 14, 2019
– The best part is that Israel, Jordan and Ukraine receive $5.3 billion – nearly 5x what the GOP Congress is willing to spend on our own border.
Israel, Ukraine, and Jordan receive $5.3 billion
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 14, 2019
– Trump also gets less money for “border security” than he did in the 2018 Omnibus.
After signing the Omnibus Spending Bill last March, President Trump said he would never sign another bill like it again. The 2018 Omnibus Bill allocated only $1.6 Billion for “border security.” The deal put together by Congress this week allocates $1.3 Billion.
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) February 12, 2019
– The bill DOUBLES H2-B visas for unskilled, agricultural workers for Big Ag:
This spending bill will ensure that not a single mile of fence will be built. (Any sort of "wall" is directly prohibited.) https://t.co/wIyxInCn3l
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 14, 2019
Mark Krikorian lays out everything that is wrong with this bill:
Immigration Landmines in the Funding Bill https://t.co/2CaNgVX3u0
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) February 14, 2019
The bill is great for Israel though … so, will he sign it? Will it be America First or Israel First? Mitch McConnell is saying he is ready to sign it.
Drimp knows he’s going to lose a lot of the support he got from mainstream White America in the 2016 election, so now he’s pandering to the neo-con establishment instead.
that’s it. The demoncrats keep moving harder Left, more and more anti-White…
and Trump follows along. Calculating, as republiscams always do, that Whites have nowhere else to go.
anyhow, it’s all low comedy at this point even if the MAGA idiots are too stupid to get it:
first, Trump signs a bill that basically liquidates the border altogether….
then proclaims “National Emergency” on the “border”.
To declare a national emergency, Trump will now have to argue that a bill HE SIGNED was unconstitutional.
Ask your new AG if this is a good idea. —Ann Coulter (Don’t forget Ann Coulter is a well read lawyer).
He’ll definitely sign it because there is money for Israel in there. Who cares about a wall in America as long as Israel gets money to build a wall that’s what all those kikes like Kushner and shabbos goyim are whispering in his ear. And he knows who his masters are.
So you’ve already got Pelosi explaining that the declaration of emergency Orange Man is going to go through with (allegedly) can be used by a Leftist President to sanction mandatory gun confiscation.
Let’s just take everyone to school here on how things work:
A. Republican without revolutionary zeal declares state of emergency – Leftists file lawsuits, construction of wall is delayed on the local level or by human rights complaints, and eventually courts with Republican judges as swing votes declare move unconstitutional.
B. Leftist declares state of emergency – Conservatives file lawsuits despite having a total track record of failure, gun confiscations occur in Leftist areas but perhaps are half-assed in deep red areas, Cucks who posted rifle memes on Faceberg throughout Obama’s Presidency do nothing and roll over like fools, courts may come back declaring the move unconstitutional (maybe), but let’s just be real and admit that nobody is getting their 30.06’s back…
Who was that that said something about the right of the people to abolish existing government and institute new government? It went something like this….When in the course of human events….
“But Sec.224 is a poison pill: Gives deportation immunity to any sponsor—or POTENTIAL sponsor—of an “unaccompanied” alien child.”
I would be very curious specifically which piece of human garbage slipped that one into the bill. This traitor needs to be named and shamed far and wide.
Oh, and I can’t think of a better justification for a line item veto…although it would be pointless here as the bill is supermajority/veto proof and I doubt the President has the courage and moral integrity to line item that one if he had the power.