$3.6 Billion for Trump's Wall

[pearl]

Abraham Lincoln's Invention of Presidential War Powers | James Madison Program

We can go back and forth in an effort to support our position, but my only point, that Lincoln freed the slaves held by the Confederacy, under the Confiscation Act. The slaves were considered property.
The Supreme Court, in upholding the Act, argued that extraordinary conditions justified such a law as part of broad military powers. In other words, the exercise of confiscation was a war power and not a criminal measure for the punishment of a crime.

B. The Confiscation Act of 1862 and Civil War Forfeitures

 

[Shiranui117]

Trump is desperate to keep his campaign promise to build his wall. I don't see how it can be declared a national emergency since the number of illegal crossings has been down for several years and as far as the so-called caravan is concerned, they are not crossing illegally but legally seeking asylum.

Then why are border apprehensions at a 13-year-high?
And yes, if you cross the border at a point other than a port of entry, it is an illegal crossing. They are crossing the border illegally and then presenting themselves to a border agent to seek asylum. That is not the proper way to do it. They are supposed to go to a port of entry and claim asylum there, not climb the border fence or walk through open desert into the US.