What Actually Happened Friday While the Media and never Trumper's freeked out over Trumps "National Emergency".

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Friday's Rose Garden announcements created a media storm for other events that went largely unreported. There were actually 3 (three) Executive Actions taken, only one of which involved a National Emergency declaration. Here are the current Wall Funding sources now deployed:

What Actually Happened Friday While the Media and never Trumper's freeked out over Trumps


1) $601 Million from Treasury Forfeiture Fund [31 U.S.C. section 9705] = no emergency declaration required.

2) $2.5B Military Construction for combating drug trafficking [10 U.S.C. section 284] = no emergency declaration required.

3) $3.6B under 10 U.S.C. section 2808 = required emergency declaration.

Math: $1.3B + $.610B + $2.5B = $4.41B to spend **BEFORE** we even get to the first dollar in the $3.6B that is subject to the emergency declaration. So we'll be building another $4.4Billion worth of border barrier while the court battles rage over the remaining $3.6Billion.

What Actually Happened Friday While the Media and never Trumper's freeked out over Trumps


What about litigation over the $3.6B? The National Emergency Declaration relies on authority of 10 U.S.C. 2808 which requires "a declaration of war" **OR** "declaration by the President of a national emergency.....that requires use of the armed forces."


Now if only the President would have had the foresight to require the armed forces be used at the border months ago, the forthcoming litigation on 10 USC 2808(a) would be a slam dunk.

What Actually Happened Friday While the Media and never Trumper's freeked out over Trumps

Now consider the Roosevelt Reservation. Proclamation 758, signed in 1907, provided a 60 foot easement along the US-Mexico border for government use.

What Actually Happened Friday While the Media and never Trumper's freeked out over Trumps

Page 3,

"The 60-foot wide Roosevelt Reservation along the border was set aside from public use, with the exception of public highways, as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the U.S. and Mexico by Presidential Proclamation in 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Roosevelt Reservation includes all lands under Federal ownership in California, Arizona and New Mexico at the time the proclamation was signed, creating a formal border enforcement zone between the U.S. and Mexico (International Boundary Commission 1936)"

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"The land where this fencing was built has been publicly owned since 1907 when President Theodore Roosevelt reserved a 60-foot strip along the international boundary with Mexico for the United States to maintain the area free from obstructions as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and Mexico. In effect, the Roosevelt easement provided the federal government with a 60-foot border right-of-way on which it could build the fence. "

So in conclusion, Trump will be having a GREAT DEAL of wall built and nothing can be done to stop him.

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What Actually Happened Friday While the Media and never Trumper's freeked out over Trumps
What Actually Happened Friday While the Media and never Trumper's freeked out over Trumps "National Emergency".
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