Something that happens that requires an immediate response.
If I told you that more migrant families were arrested at the border in the past 5 months then in any previous full year, would you believe that to be an emergency?
Mark
No. Around the year 2000 we had over a million arrests. There was no national emergency then.
In the ensuing 18 years...
*GDP has doubled in this nation.
*The Stock Market has doubled a great many times.
*Family wealth has increased on the average which is remarkable considering that the power of labor has gone from being on life support to being legally dead
*Violent crime continues to decrease
*Standards of living continue to increase
*The drug problem has gotten worse but as we have seen with prisons, walls and guards do little to stop drugs from getting in to those places so it's foolish to think it will stop a measurable quantity from getting over a 2,000 mile barrier.
My turn: Please justify declaring a "national emergency" in 02/19? Why wasn't it a national emergency in 01/17 when the President took office?
I understand not getting funding through Congress was frustrating but Congress is not there to be a rubber stamp for the President.
Doesn't this open the door to funding any campaign promise through declaration of a National Emergency?
Wasn't Mexico supposed to pay for the wall?