Government shutdown would be on Democrats
promise he made the last time a spending bill was passed last spring.
“I will never sign another bill like this again,” he said when Congress failed to include border wall appropriations in March.
President Trump won in 2016 based largely on the pledge that he would build the wall, and America is counting on him to deliver.
He has already secured an initial down payment of $1.6 billion in border funding, which is being used to build and rebuild barriers and sections of a wall at the border, but he needs Congress to approve the $25 billion needed to finish the job.
If a government shutdown does occur – itself a misnomer since only about 17 percent of government services, all nonessential, cease operations per 2013 shutdown – you can blame the Democrats and their obstructionist agenda for the consequences.
Their open borders agenda and refusal to negotiate with the White House have only exacerbated the situation, leaving Trump with no other option.
The president’s good faith efforts to work with Democrats on immigration have been met with Democrat obstruction and obfuscation.
While the president has dramatically enhanced enforcement with significant results thus far, the Democrats have done everything in their power to prevent a real solution, and some of their leaders want to make the problem even worse.
Prominent Democrats such as Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Elizabeth Warren want to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- a disastrous proposal that will encourage more illegal immigration and make our communities less safe.
They ignore the fact that border walls are actually proven to be effective and life-saving. The town of El Paso, Texas is a perfect example. Federal data show that a border wall has already reduced both illegal immigrant crossings and crime in Texas’ sixth-largest city — which borders Ciudad Juarez, one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities.
The number of illegal immigrants apprehended by border patrol agents fell drastically over the six-year period after the town’s border wall was built.
Before the project first started in 2006, illegal crossings totaled 122,261 per year, but by 2012, after the 131-mile wall was completed, illegal immigrant crossings dropped to below 9,700 per year — more than a 90 percent decrease.
President Trump is refusing to play the Democrat’s game and will take extraordinary measures to ensure that his solemn pledge to the American people to build a wall is fulfilled.
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