This is missing the mark.
If a socialist president is elected we are screwed no matter what.
They don't care about rights, laws, or the Constitution.

California, New Jersey, New York are giving Id's and Drivers Licenses to illegals.
If we don't seal the border and deport... There will never be a conservative elected again.

Trump is our very last chance. If he fails, its civil war.

I agree. The border is important but libs will use this mechanism to strip us of our rights

I appreciate all of the feedback. I feel the same way about protecting our boarders as many of you. This is an emergency. However I also feel that this is a usurpation if the power of the purse. This could be a very dangerous precedent.

I disagree. There IS an emergency att the border. Aside from drugs flowing into the US and costing us billions, illegal immigrants also flood in and use resources they don’t pay for and cost American taxpayers millions. I’d rather my money go to help Americans

I understand your concern. Congress created the law and he is following the law. Congress has the power to change the law. It really is that easy to fix. If only we still were a nation where everyone followed the law.

Trump didn't let this genie out of the bottle. It was let loose the day the National Emergencies Act was signed into law back in 1976.

This, [thehill.com] is a good read on the matter.

Upshot:

"Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build the wall derives from that singular authority in the National Emergencies Act (NEA), passed by Congress in l976. Since then, presidents have resorted to the NEA 58 times. In each case, the president — Democrat and Republican — spent funds not appropriated by Congress and the Supreme Court did not overturn the action..."

My question is why should we push back on this declaration when we didn't bother to push back on the previous ones? What's different?

Answer: Nothing.

Personally, I feel that the NEA is certainly an overreach from the get-go. The whole thing should be repealed, but I'm not holding my breath because the precedence was established all the way back when it was first utilized in the Carter Administration.

This is life on the slippery slope.

I concur that Trump's decision to go ahead with the Executive order was probably something we'll regret. Similar situation to the Democrat nuclear option. Democrat Socialist gets elected, there's a mass shooting by some crazy nut, and our newly elected Facist (excuse me, Socialist) President will declare an emergency and start gun confiscation. I figure this will happen early on in the new American Socialist society.

I hear what you're saying, but the precedence was already set, with executive order under Obama of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA.

I have watched most every elected liberal in my lifetime "overreach". Nearly every president in modern history has declared a "national emergency" to the benefit of foreign entities. Nothing we do will stop them. So we might as well get something out of it for once.

I understand your concern.