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Pentagon Confirms: President Trump Can Build The Wall Without Declaring National Emergency

  

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Via:  donald-trump-fan1  •  5 years ago  •  10 comments

Pentagon Confirms: President Trump Can Build The Wall Without Declaring National Emergency
“10 United States Code 284, which authorizes President Trump to deploy the military to the Southern border, and to do a lot of other things, and for clarity if you look it up in the dictionary the word fence and the word barrier includes walls of a variety of different materials. So having been said it seems to me that 10 USC 284 can be used by the United States to direct the United States military to build a wall,” Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama asked Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy...

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10 United States Code 284, “Support for counterdrug activities and activities to counter transnational organized crime,” allows President Donald Trump to direct the Secretary of Defense to secure the southern border with a wall, the Pentagon confirms.

10 United States Code 284 , which authorizes President Trump to deploy the military to the Southern border, and to do a lot of other things, and for clarity if you look it up in the dictionary the word fence and the word barrier includes walls of a variety of different materials. So having been said it seems to me that 10 USC 284 can be used by the United States to direct the United States military to build a wall,” Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama asked Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood.

“You are correct,” said Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood. “That use of authority would authorize the Secretary of Defense to erect barriers, roads, fencing, those type of materials to disrupt drug smuggling.”








During a Armed Services hearing, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood confirmed that existing federal law (10 U.S.C. 284) permits @ realDonaldTrump to direct the military to # BuildTheWall without declaring a national emergency.







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XXJefferson51
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1  seeder  XXJefferson51    5 years ago

“So having been said it seems to me that 10 USC 284 can be used by the United States to direct the United States military to build a wall,” Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama asked Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood.

“You are correct,” said Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood. “That use of authority would authorize the Secretary of Defense to erect barriers, roads, fencing, those type of materials to disrupt drug smuggling.””

 
 
 
charger 383
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2  charger 383    5 years ago

that policy should have been in place the day he took office.  Why did they wait?

 
 
 
Split Personality
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2.1  Split Personality  replied to  charger 383 @2    5 years ago
enacted on April 11, 1968, and appears at page 77

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.2  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  charger 383 @2    5 years ago

It should have been enforced a long time ago.  Better late and now though than never.  

 
 
 
Studiusbagus
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3  Studiusbagus    5 years ago
That use of authority would authorize the Secretary of Defense to erect barriers, roads, fencing, those type of materials to disrupt drug smuggling.”

Going to put a wall up across ports of entry....okay.

 
 
 
Split Personality
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3.1  Split Personality  replied to  Studiusbagus @3    5 years ago

Already there, lol...

Even the trains get x-rayed and still are a major source of the drug traffic.

At one point Dodge, Mazda and others were taking the tires off of the trucks & cars  headed north on rail cars so they couldn't be used to smuggle drugs, lol

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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3.2  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Studiusbagus @3    5 years ago

Well Trump did propose 800 million for technology to fight drug smuggling at ports of entry that could well be a part of the overall effort.  

 
 
 
Studiusbagus
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3.2.1  Studiusbagus  replied to  XXJefferson51 @3.2    5 years ago

Yes...that may very well be.

But,

   When it comes time you will not like the precedent set by enacting the Emergency Powers act.

As one of your own Senators lamented that Trump is determined to enact the powers act and the unthinking radical right have cheered him on to do just that.

What is to stop another president reacting to the death of a child from a semi-automatic gun to confiscate and destroy all semi's?

And I don't need " civil war would....." 

There would be no legal fallback. You opened a door for this. 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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3.2.2  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Studiusbagus @3.2.1    5 years ago

What precedent? It’s been done at least 30 different times since the congress limited a Presidents emergency powers with this 1976 law.  

 
 
 
Studiusbagus
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3.2.3  Studiusbagus  replied to  XXJefferson51 @3.2.2    5 years ago

It's been used for natural disasters and 9/11...it was never used as a political tool.

There's your precedent.

Hope and pray when a Democrat gets in that seat that there isn't a mass shooting using a semi-automatic.

"The precedent was already set back in the Trump years" is what you'll hear inbetween howlings.

 
 

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