Rule of Law has absolutely nothing to do with this discussion ---start at your Post # 17 and read forward.
Apparently not in your mind. The authority of the President to use the military to build the wall comes from Title X Statute, which is the Rule of Law applicable to this situation. Under that law there are two different ways a President can use military to build a wall/barriers, 1. is national emergency, which is brief, short-term, temporary, 60 days 2. is counter illegal drug operations, which does not require a "national emergency", can be long-term and continuous to prevent illegal drugs from entering the United States, which at the same time blocks human smuggling corridors at the same time.
Focusing on 1. instead of 2. is as big a mistake as the government shutdown and rescinding DACA 2012 instead of letting it expire in June 2017 with the other two. Mistakes have consequences which is why in a rational world, one tries to avoid them. It's why we're a Republic instead of a Democracy. It's why we have an Electoral College. It's why we have a Filibuster Rule. It's why US Senators have 6 year terms instead of 2 year terms like the House.
Remember the words of Franklin when he walked out of the Constitutional Convention and was asked by the doctor, do we have a Republic or a Monarchy, and Franklin said "a Republic if you can keep it."
All of that to avoid the discussion,,,,
You said this
Trump tweeted on the 19th of December that he would use the military to build the wall.
There was never any reason for the government shutdown.
You post statements like that when you are trying to convince people the wall will be built, that Trump is getting the job done.
Then when someone reminds you that it isn't being built, you come back with
Trump didn't say it. It was the Pentagon who said it a month or so ago. They said that under Title X law, they could build the walls/barriers to deal with a national emergency or to counter illegal drug operations.
No, I'm not. I'm not a big fan of the wall and have never been. I support it, but I'm not a fan of it. I'm sorry that we need such a thing. I would like to see the problem solved another way, but there doesn't seem to be one, I really didn't like the concrete wall, I do like that American-made Steel Bollard Fencing and especially the Picket Fence new version with the spikey tops. I'm good with the wall, but I didn't vote for Trump or support him over a wall. I guess for some people, that's the only reason they voted for him which is why they aren't excited like I am about all the other wonderful things he's accomplished for our country and citizens while he's still trying to figure out how to end illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration without having enough votes in Congress to pass his legislative plan to do so.
Judy wrote (excerpt):
DACA was never set to expire. There was no expiration date or sunset on Obama's DACA program and evidence of that fact has been shown to you on several occasions. Don't know why you continue to push such fiction because continuing the falsehood doesn't serve you or Trump.Quote:
Focusing on 1. instead of 2. is as big a mistake as the government shutdown and rescinding DACA 2012 instead of letting it expire in June 2017 with the other two. Mistakes have consequences which is why in a rational world, one tries to avoid them. It's why we're a Republic instead of a Democracy. It's why we have an Electoral College. It's why we have a Filibuster Rule. It's why US Senators have 6 year terms instead of 2 year terms like the House.
I repeat, the program never had an actual expiration date. Each member had to remain eligible to renew at the required time, but the program itself had no written expiration or sunset date. As long as a DACA member remained eligible he or she could renew. Are you confusing the actual program itself with the members individual term before required renewal? Are we talking about two separate things here? Like I said, the overall program had no written expiration or sunset date.
When Obama unsuccessfully attempted to change the renewal of EADs from two to three years and broaden the immigrant group that would be eligible, it had nothing to do with the overall expiration date of the program itself. He was just attempting to renew EADs for three vice two years. Of course as we know the EAD extension was shot down in court.
Once again, the program has no expiration date and a qualifying member of the program receives a 2 year EAD, however, since the DACA program has no expiration date a person can repeatedly reapply until the program is officially ended.