PRESIDENT TRUMP UPENDS CHECKS AND BALANCES FOR A POLITICAL STUNT

In one of his most unhinged moments, Trump creates a constitutional crisis for a wall, and it is up to Congress to reclaim its role as a check on this wanna-be emperor.

Los Angeles, CA — The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), the largest immigrant rights organization in California, said President DonaldTrump’s declaration of a national emergency to fund a border wall upends our checks and balances for the sake of a mere political goal.

Below are statements from CHIRLA Executive Director Angelica Salas:

“This president who is forever on the campaign trail but has no interest in actual governance has sunk to manufacturing a national security emergency to try to bypass Congress for a border wall that we all know is a political stunt.

This is a power grab unlike anything we have seen in recent history. Trump may be laying the groundwork for his 2020 re-election campaign, but he is tearing down our nation’s democratic underpinnings in the process.

The real crisis here is Trump’s insane immigration policies that rip toddlers from their parents’ arms, jail boys and girls in desert camps, and tear-gas asylum seekers. Under Trump, a system that was already broken has become Kafkaesque and gratuitously cruel.

President Trump is overreaching again with this latest move, and it is up to Congress to assert its power of the purse and reclaim its role as a check and balance against a tyrant.”