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

Central American migrants – mostly Hondurans – taking part in a caravan heading towards the US, queue to enter a shelter set up at the Sports City in Mexico City on January 30, 2019. Credit: Pedro Pardo, AFP, Getty Images

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:

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If the committee of Republicans and Democrats now meeting on Border Security is not discussing or contemplating a Wall or Physical Barrier, they are Wasting their time!

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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.

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