Watch–Defense Official: Nothing Stopping Trump from Authorizing Military to Build Border Wall

• The entire ‘funding for Wall’ conflict between Trump and the DemocRATs is a distraction to hide something. But what? I still have not figured it out. Trump can simply take the US$5B out of the Pentagon budget. It is after all for the defense and security of the nation against illegal foreign invaders. The politician snakes, in the District of Criminals, are playing some kind of game to distract from what is happening behind the scenes. Is the shutdown of the US government over this issue necessary? Obviously not!
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• See also:
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  Democrats Funded ‘Wall’ Under Bush, Obama–Refuse Same Barrier to Trump
  If You Like Trump’s ‘Wall,’ Thank Obama And Bush. It’s Basically Just Their Fence.
  Democrats supported the wall in 2006 when it was a fence
  … Democrats haven’t always had such a hard position on the border wall. Over the past decade, Democrats have supported billions of dollars in funding for physical barriers. In 2006, the Secure Fence Act passed with bipartisan support requiring the construction of physical barriers along 700 miles of the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. Sixty-four Democrats voted the measure in the House and 26 in the Senate.
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  In 2013, all Senate Democrats and most House Democrats backed comprehensive immigration reform legislation, the so-called Gang of Eight bill. It included $46 billion for border security and around $8 billion to repair or reinforce barriers along the 700 miles of the border as required under the Secure Fence Act.
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  Schumer also briefly offered to deliver the Democratic votes to fully fund the border wall at $25 billion in exchange for a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers. The January 2018 deal quickly fell apart amid a government shutdown, criticism from Democratic and Republican bases and Trump’s insistence on adding legal immigration reform onto the deal.
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• Watch–Defense Official: Nothing Stopping Trump from Authorizing Military to Build Border Wall
  by John Binder, https://www.breitbart.com/
  President Trump can build a border wall using the United States military to stop mass illegal immigration and drug trafficking without funding approval from Congress and without having to declare a national emergency.
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  During a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood confirmed to Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) that Trump does not need Congress or a national emergency declaration to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The exchange went as follows:
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  BROOKS: I want to direct your attention to 10 United States Code § 284 which authorizes President Trump to deploy the United States military to the southern border to build fences and to do a lot of other things, and for clarity, if you look it up in the dictionary the word fence includes the word barrier and the word barrier includes walls made of a wide variety of different materials.
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  So that having been said, it seems to me that 10 U.S. Code § 284 can be used by the President of the United States to direct the United States military to build a wall. Now as of today, you’ve mentioned military forces along the southern border, have any of them been deployed pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 284?
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  ROOD: Congressman, I don’t believe any of our forces have been deployed pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 284. You are correct, however, that that use of authority would authorize the secretary of defense to erect barriers, roads, fencing, those types of materials to disrupt drug smuggling.
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  BROOKS: Does 10 U.S.C. § 284 as you understand it, require the declaration of a national emergency before it is implemented?
  ROOD: No.
  BROOKS: It does not?
  ROOD: No.
  BROOKS: Has President Trump, to your knowledge, ever used 10 U.S.C § 284 to direct the military to build the wall that is necessary for border security?
  ROOD: No, not to my knowledge, Congressman.
  BROOKS: If President Trump were to direct the Pentagon and the United States military pursuant to 10 U.S.C § 284 to build such barriers as are necessary to secure our southern border from drug trafficking and international crime cartels would the United States military obey that order?
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  ROOD: If we judge it to be a lawful order, yes sir. And I assume it would be.
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