Hillary Clinton responded to Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency over the Mexico southern border wall by outlining what she called “real national emergencies”.
Last week Trump declared the national emergency, prompting vicious blowback that includes calls for impeachment and criticisms of his mental health.
He said:
Today I’m announcing several critical actions that my administration is taking to confront a problem that we have right here at home. We fight wars that are 6,000 miles away, wars that we should have never been in, in many cases, but we don’t control our own border. So we are going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border. And we’re going to do it one way or the other. We have to do it — not because it was a campaign promise, which it is.
So I’m going to be signing a national emergency. And it’s been signed many times before. It’s been signed by other presidents. From 1977 or so, it gave the presidents the power.
Taking to Twitter, Clinton wrote: “The real national emergencies [are]:”
– Relentless gun violence.
– Children separated from their families at the border.
– Climate change.
– Americans dying for lack of health care