The only emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border is a humanitarian one.
Having agreed to send thousands more troops to the border to help with surveillance, the Pentagon on Tuesday told Congress that building a wall at the U.S. border with Mexico is, in fact, not a national emergency.
President Donald Trump, however, has threatened to declare an emergency at the border if Congress does not allocate $5.7 billion for his border wall. He even took to his favorite platform on Wednesday morning to insist that a wall (or barrier) is necessity:
Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
If the committee of Republicans and Democrats now meeting on Border Security is not discussing or contemplating a Wall or Physical Barrier, they are Wasting their time!
But human rights advocates at the border see another kind of emergency in the making.
View the complete Janaury 30 article by D. Parvaz on the ThinkProgress website here.