{"id":396242,"date":"2019-02-18T12:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T11:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/31-actual-national-emergencies\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T12:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T11:20:39","slug":"31-actual-national-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/31-actual-national-emergencies\/","title":{"rendered":"31 Actual National Emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><strong>A Wannabe Strongman\u2019s Brown Menace Straw Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone with five functioning gray cells knows that the aspiring fascist strongman Donald Trump\u2019s Declaration of a National Emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border is absurd.<\/p>\n<p>There is no \u201cnational security crisis\u201d of illegal immigration on the southern United States border.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal crossings are not at \u201cemergency\u201d levels; they are at a fifty-year low.<\/p>\n<p>Undocumented immigrants are not a crime and violence threat.\u00a0 They are less likely to commit crimes, violent ones included, than naturalized U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Drugs come into the U.S. not through gaps in border fencing but primarily through legal ports of entry.<\/p>\n<p>There is no big call for a completed U.S.-Mexico wall on the part of U.S. citizens on the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>The United States military has not been \u201cbreaking up\u201d and blocking \u201cmonstrous caravans\u201d of illegal immigrants trying to harm the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The only crisis at the border is the humanitarian one created by Trump\u2019s war on asylum-seekers and legal as well as technically illegal immigrants. The wannabe strongman has set up a ridiculous brown menace strawman in an effort to take\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-presidency-national-emergency.html?action=click&amp;module=Top+Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;fbclid=IwAR0b_jSTjZq5niUCsITD2cGCSxlygfOtUFX4TiE_rnlKQU9b61n-2VPP34Y\">an unprecedented step<\/a>. He wants to use the National Emergencies Act to fulfill a ridiculous campaign promises to his white-nationalist base.\u00a0 He wants to make an end run around Congress to spend federal taxpayer on a project that lawmakers chose not to fund \u2013 a political vanity scheme that is opposed by 60 percent of the U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/02\/18\/thirty-one-actual-national-emergencies\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wannabe Strongman\u2019s Brown Menace Straw Man Everyone with five functioning gray cells knows that the aspiring fascist strongman Donald Trump\u2019s Declaration of a National Emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border is absurd. There is no \u201cnational security crisis\u201d of illegal immigration on the southern United States border. Illegal crossings are not at \u201cemergency\u201d levels; they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}