With no end in sight to the government shutdown, President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly laying the groundwork to declare a national emergency to access funds for his much-debated wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Use of that unspent money for a national emergency is allowed by Title 10 of the U.S. Code. Though Trump has characterized undocumented immigration through the U.S.-Mexico border as a major security threat to the U.S., the data do not back up his claims. “Make no mistake: Democrats and the president both want stronger border security,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a rebuttal to Trump’s Tuesday address on the border situation. “However, we sharply disagree with the president about the most effective way to do it.”

Source: Huffington Post January 11, 2019 00:00 UTC