Let’s start with some knowledge first from the Oxford English Dictionary.
emergency
noun
- 1A serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.
‘personal alarms for use in an emergency’
mass noun ‘survival packs were carried in case of emergency’
We have several issues today that I would classify as an ‘Emergency’. President Trump has declared an emergency regarding illegal immigration and the effects it has in our society in order to have the necessary abilities to stop illegal immigration at the border. Let’s take a look at the reasons why this is a legitimate declaration and why we should support it.
Drugs.
We have people dying every day due to illicit drug use where these drugs come across our unguarded border. The costs of dealing with this public health menace are staggering.
New Report Estimates Illicit Drug Use Costs U.S. Economy More Than $193 Billion Annually
The people pay for this crisis and not the users and certainly not the dealers. Our porous border contributes to this problem substantially.
Illegal Immigrant crime
Illegal Immigrant Crime Costs American Taxpayers $16.1 Billion Every Year
Source: https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/05/24/cost-illegal-immigration-crimes/
This is a very conservative estimate of just the costs of crime by those who enter our country illegally through a non-existent border barrier. One citizen’s life lost should be enough to warrant closing the border for real. More than one person dies in a year due to an illegal immigrant and we owe their families and loved ones that we do our upmost to stop illegal immigration so no more American families need suffer a tragedy such as we have seen all too often in the news.
Illegal immigrant costs in terms of welfare and other programs
The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer
There are approximately 3.7 million unlawful immigrant households in the U.S. These households impose a net fiscal burden of around $54.5 billion per year. Amnesty for unlawful immigrants can pose large fiscal costs for U.S. taxpayers including public education, welfare benefits, and other benefits and services.
This amount is staggering considering that it would not exist if illegal immigrants could not get inside our nation’s borders.
President Trump has declared an emergency in order to facilitate the construction of a real border barrier. We are spending approximately a QUARTER of a TRILLION DOLLARS in response to the illegal intrusion of immigrants into our nation. This is an emergency in many ways.
If this were costs to the nation due to gun ownership the left would have found a way to ban them regardless of what anyone said all due to the ‘emergency’ they would be causing the nation.
The facts are substantial and incontrovertible as far as proving that our border needs to be secured and not just with arresting those who come in but by stopping their entrance altogether. This is not to say we would stop ‘legal immigration’. That process is by far the best way to vet and otherwise identify those individuals who seek to enter the US for legitimate reasons. By all means we would continue accepting requests for immigration and asylum.
You have to wonder why the democrats resist the border wall as much as they do. It has been suggested that they, the democrats, are receiving substantial amounts of money from interests that are benefited by illegal immigration. This amounts to profiteering from crime by the democrats.
I would hate to believe this is true but I cannot find a logical reason for the policy issue changes from the democrats from wanting a wall to not wanting a wall all in about 4 years time. This is an issue that should rise above politics and should be dealt with in a manner that reflects the wishes of the American people but apparently people like Schumer and Pelosi do not consider the opinions and the election of Trump to be a valid reason to comply.
Glenda T. Goode 