“I’m going to be signing a national emergency… Everyone knows that walls work,” the president told reporters at the White House. But the measure falls wells short of the $5.7 billion that Trump has been demanding for a wall on the 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) southern border, and the emergency declaration would help him bypass Congress and get the money that lawmakers refused to give him. We want to stop criminals and gangs from coming into our country,” Trump said. ‘Great violence’The emergency declaration enables the activation of any of hundreds of dormant powers, which can permit the White House to declare martial law, suspend civil liberties, expand the military, seize property and restrict trade, communications and financial transactions. “I expect to be sued,” he said at the White House.

Source: Punch February 15, 2019 16:52 UTC