The Pentagon just doesn’t see Trump’s border wall as an emergency

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:

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.