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| President Trump Oval Office Address: Border Security ‘A Choice Between Right and Wrong' |
| 2019-01-09 |
| [Breitbart] President Donald Trump delivered an address to the American people from the Oval Office on Tuesday, speaking about the crisis on the Southern border. "This is a choice between right and wrong, justice and injustice," Trump said in his eight-minute address, describing it as "a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul." The president detailed the ongoing migration and illegal immigration crisis but did not declare an official State of Emergency, which would allow him to shift funding to fund border security without Congress. "This is the cycle of human suffering I am determined to end," he said. He noted that migrant women and children were "victims" of the broken immigration system, specifically citing the more than 20,000 children brought illegally into the United States. "These children are used as human pawns by vicious coyotes and ruthless gangs," he said. The president described the ongoing problems with drugs and crime coming across the border, endangering the lives of Americans. He again stated his request for a $5.7 billion wall, but said that it would be a "steel barrier instead of a concrete wall." "This is just common sense," he said. He defended the concept of a border wall, disputing that it was "immoral" as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted. "Why do wealthy politicians build walls, fences, and gates outside their home?" he asked. "They don’t build walls because they hate the people on the outside but because they love the people on the inside." He argued that the steel barrier would pay for itself, and paid for indirectly by the new trade deal with Mexico. Trump blamed Democrats for the government shutdown, noting that leaders used to support the idea of more border security. Related: The Hill - Five takeaways from Trump’s Oval Office address Related: Daily Caller - Twitter goes wild to Chunk and Nancy's painfully awkward response. Related: American Thinker - Once again, Trump has outsmarted his media foes |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Democrats should come to Hollywood so we can change their image. |
| Posted by: M. Night Shyamalan 2019-01-09 13:07 |
| #2 I watched as much as I could of the Chuck and Nancy show in response to Trump's speech but I had to turn if off before they were finished because I couldn't take any more of the bullshit. When Nancy said we all agree on the need for border security, I almost gagged. If she and her fellow Democrats agreed on the need for border security, the border would be secure, there would be no caravans, no MS-13, no meth, no cocaine, no heroin and no fentanyl. When Baraq was president, she was Speaker of the House and Harry Reid was Senate Majority Leader they could have easily secured that border. But they didn't. So that was a lie that Nancy told and she lost me right there. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-01-09 12:34 |
| #1 I almost didn't recognize Schumer without seeing the top of his head |
| Posted by: Jan 2019-01-09 11:04 |