Democrats get pretty heated when we mention ‘The Wall’. Imagine how mad they’d be if they knew who voted for it!
Mexico. Immigration. Wall.
Those three words shaped the entire narrative of the 2016 election.
And yet, when Trump kept that promise, how did he do it? Did he make some radical new edict?
Is he just a Republican version of Obama? Is he an autocrat making laws with his pen and his phone?
Nope. He just directed people to put existing laws into action.
That’s right. The law for the wall has been there all along. Don’t you remember? There was just no POLITICAL will to get it done.
President Donald Trump will be able to order the construction of a wall on the Mexico border Wednesday with the stroke of a pen, because of a 2006 law passed with the help of Democrats including Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton.
The 2006 law authorized the construction of 700 miles of fencing along the southern border, as well as additional lights, cameras and sensors to enhance security. Although former President George W. Bush signed the measure into law, the Democrat-controlled Congress that took over a few months later ensured it would never be completed by means of an amendment to a 2008 spending bill.
The amendment removed an explicit requirement the wall be made of double-layer fencing, and gave the Department of Homeland Security authority to put in place less effective barriers, such as simple vehicle barriers that do not keep pedestrians out. As a result, Democrats were able to avoid a politically unpopular vote against the wall, and then turn around and quietly gut its construction. But Trump and Republicans in the new Congress now plan to use that law to ensure a proper wall is constructed.
Since the law was never actually repealed, the federal government is still authorized to build a substantial wall on the southern border. Congress doesn’t have to pass a new law to begin construction, and can instead package the funds necessary into a massive spending bill Democrats would have a politically hard time opposing. Trump may get a head start on the process by diverting other funds congressional leaders have indicated are available for the project, ensuring a snafu over the spending bill doesn’t hinder prompt construction of the wall.
If Trump and Republicans follow through, a number of top Democrats will find they inadvertently handed Trump the border wall they now oppose. Their only option to block the construction would be to shut down the government over the matter by blocking the spending bill, a strategy they have consistently mocked and derided Republicans for using in the past.
In addition to then Sens. Obama, Biden and Clinton, 64 House Democrats and 23 Senate Democrats voted for the wall in 2006. Many of them are still in Congress, including newly-established Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. —DailyCaller
So, really…
After years of Obama telling us that we cannot take credit for our own accomplishments…
(As in: “you didn’t build that”)
We will legitimately be able to look Obama, Hillary, Biden and Schumer in the eye, point at the wall, and say …
YOU BUILT THAT.
You know… we should thank them for making this possible.
With Trump undoing everything Obama worked so hard to accomplish with his pen and his phone, the poor guy has no legacy to speak of.
Maybe we should throw him a bone… give him THAT much. We could call it the Obama-wall.
Then he’d have a legacy the Mexicans could remember him for FOREVER.
