On Wednesday evening, the Trump White House insisted, again, as always, that the U.S.-Mexico border is a “national emergency in plain sight.” (They illustrated the claim with a photo of the White House looking pretty removed from reality.)
On Thursday morning, Albuquerque’s alt weekly happened to offer the perfect response. Below is another affirmation of what people actually think here in the border state of New Mexico:
This is Not an Emergency
State sues over Trump’s power grab
By Carolyn Carlson
ALIBI V.28 NO.8 • FEB 21-27, 2019
https://alibi.com/news/57967/This-is-Not-an-Emergency.html
In an effort to check the power of an absurd and dangerous president, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham along with Attorney General Hector Balderas led New Mexicans in joining 16 states that filed suit to block the Trump administration’s unconstitutional use of emergency powers to fund a border wall.
The complaint was filed on President’s Day [2/18/19] in US District Court for Northern California. […]
“There is zero real world basis for the emergency declaration, and there will be no wall,” Gov. Lujan Grisham said. Lujan Grisham has challenged Trump's narrative of a security crisis on the border head-on. She recently withdrew most of the state's National Guard contingent, leaving a small group of troops along a well-traveled corridor to help cross-border migrants. The real emergency is the humanitarian crisis at the border, which most folks agree has been caused by Trump policies.