You may not call the present crisis a war, but we are at war on our southern border, and losing, to narcotics smugglers, human traffickers, gangs and other criminal elements, disease, and hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. In the 43 years the National Emergency Act has been in force, it has been utilized by Presidents about 60 times, most of those times the emergency was far less serious than the one now existing along our southern border. What is happening along our 1954 mile long southern border, 2/3 of which has no fence, if not a truly valid National Emergency, the word has no meaning.
We have about 50,000 miles of Interstate Highways which would cost as much per mile, if built today, as the proposed border fence. We already have about 700 miles of fence which holds back mass walkovers and this new super fence, more than a wall, will make crossings far more difficult for all but a few trapeze artists, which border patrol can deal with. And long lasting fences are cheaper than 24 hour a day human guards.
It is disgusting that the Democrat Party is so appallingly inconsistent and vicious in their effort to destroy our duly elected President, simply because he does not follow their New World Order, Socialistic Party line which is actually World Communism without borders and without freedom.
According to CNN "All recent presidents going back to Jimmy Carter have declared at least one national emergency during their time in office. It has been used 60 times for all sorts of "emergencies", 90% of those were less of an emergency than this one. For his part, Barack Obama declared 13 national emergencies. If Obama's 13 different emergencies were so important, name me two or three of them. But nobody will forget President Trump's reason for declaring our border calamity a national emergency... because it is. RB
This Explanation of the Act From Wikipedia...
The National Emergencies Act (NEA) enacted September 14, 1976, and codified .... is a United States federal law passed to end all previous national states of emergency and to formalize the emergencies powers of the President.
The Act empowers the President to activate special powers during a crisis but imposes certain procedural formalities when invoking such powers. The perceived need for the law arose from the scope and number of laws granting special powers to the executive in times of national emergency. Congress can undo a state of emergency declaration with either a joint resolution and the President's signature, or with a veto-proof (two-thirds) majority vote.[1] Powers available under this Act are limited to the 136 emergency powersCongress has defined by law.[2]
The legislation was signed by President Gerald Ford on September 14, 1976.[3] As of February 2019, 59 national emergencies have been declared, and the United States is under 31 continuing declared states of national emergency.[1][4]
The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, enacted in 1977, falls under the National Emergencies Act, which means that an emergency declared under that Act must be renewed annually to remain in effect.
The first President to issue an emergency proclamation[5][6] was Woodrow Wilson, who on February 5, 1917, issued the following:
| “ | I have found that there exists a national emergency arising from the insufficiency of maritime tonnage to carry the products of the farms, forests, mines and manufacturing industries of the United States, to their consumers abroad and within the United States[7] | ” |
This proclamation was within the limits of the act that established the United States Shipping Board.
Starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, presidents asserted the power to declare emergencies without limiting their scope or duration, without citing the relevant statutes, and without congressional oversight.[8] The Supreme Court in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer limited what a president could do in such an emergency, but did not limit the emergency declaration power itself. A 1973 Senate investigation found (in Senate Report 93-549) that four declared emergencies remained in effect: the 1933 banking crisis with respect to the hoarding of gold,[9] a 1950 emergency with respect to the Korean War,[10] a 1970 emergency regarding a postal workers strike, and a 1971 emergency in response to inflation.[11] Many provisions of statutory law are contingent on a declaration of national emergency, as many as 500 by one count.[12] It was due in part to concern that a declaration of "emergency" for one purpose should not invoke every possible executive emergency power, that Congress in 1976 passed the National Emergencies Act.
Presidents have continued to use their emergency authority subject to the provisions of the act, with 42 national emergencies declared between 1976 and 2007.[13] Most of these were for the purpose of restricting trade with certain foreign entities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) (50 U.S.C. 1701–1707).
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