Great. Super. He can declare a national emergency and it will get tied up in court and suck up yet more time, more effort, more money, and in the long run will most likely be shot down. It's painfully obvious that there is no emergency and this will come out in court where the Trump administration will have to deal with facts and not the bullshit lies he spits out.
Just today (yesterday?) it was announced they discoverer a tunnel over a section where there is no wall:
60-foot tunnel found in Texas running under where border wall would go
We have walls where walls are needed, fences where fences are needed, and vehicle barriers where vehicle barriers are required. Spending hundreds of billions of dollars to put up walls where walls are needed, where illegal drugs are not being carried over the border, and where illegals are not crossing the border is a massive waste of money.
Trump can declare a national emergency and frankly, I hope he does. We now have troops at the border - we just sent three thousand more - and I would love to know what our troops are actually doing if this is a national emergency. Are they patrolling the border, arresting people crossing illegally, or are they cleaning up horse shit like last time? Why is this suddenly an emergency? Illegal immigration is on the decline, and has been for the past decade.
And even if it is decided in court that there is a national emergency, spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a wall wouldn't be the proper response. The problem is at the ports of entry, not at areas where there is no wall, and if there is national emergency we would need to need to hire more Border Patrol agents or send in more troops... Not spend the next five years building a wall. If it is an emegency it needs to be handled NOW, not years of building walls.
This entire administration is a joke.