{"id":113460,"date":"2019-01-11T14:19:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T18:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=113460"},"modified":"2019-01-11T14:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T18:19:38","slug":"trump-calls-situation-at-mexico-border-an-invasion-after-trip-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=113460","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls situation at Mexico border \u2018an invasion\u2019 after trip to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_113461\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5c38c496dda4c82a128b4649.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113461\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113461\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5c38c496dda4c82a128b4649.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5c38c496dda4c82a128b4649.jpg 980w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5c38c496dda4c82a128b4649-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5c38c496dda4c82a128b4649-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-113461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, return to Mexico after being hit by tear gas sprayed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). December, 2018 \u00a9 REUTERS\/Adrees Latif<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>President Trump returned from a trip to the US\u2019 Mexican border in Texas to declare the flow of illegal immigrants \u201can invasion.\u201d Trump also his desire to build a border wall, claiming the US \u201ccannot be safe\u201d without one.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI just got back and it is a far worse situation than almost anyone would understand, an invasion!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the president tweeted, before singling out House and Senate Democratic leaders for failing to provide funding for his planned border wall.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Humanitarian Crisis at our Southern Border. I just got back and it is a far worse situation than almost anyone would understand, an invasion! I have been there numerous times &#8211; The Democrats, Cryin\u2019 Chuck and Nancy don\u2019t know how bad and dangerous it is for our ENTIRE COUNTRY&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1083756525196320773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Democrats, Cryin\u2019 Chuck and Nancy don\u2019t know how bad and dangerous it is for our ENTIRE COUNTRY,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he wrote. \u201c<em>The Steel Barrier, or Wall, should have been built by previous administrations long ago. They never got it done &#8211; I will.\u201d<\/em><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The government has been partially shut down for three weeks as of Friday, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refusing to cave to the president\u2019s demand for $5.7 billion in funding to build the wall.<\/p>\n<p>The president has mounted an all-out media offensive against the Democrats, addressing the nation on live television to make the case for the wall earlier this week, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/448515-trump-davos-trip-cancel-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">canceling<\/a>\u00a0a trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos citing \u201c<em>Democrats intransigence on border security.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Later that day, flanked by ICE agents and Customs and Border Patrol officers, Trump declared in a video address that \u201c<em>one way or another, we will get it done.\u201d<\/em>With several rounds of negotiations stalled, Trump has also teased the possibility of invoking emergency powers to get the wall built without Congressional support. Trump maintains that he has the right to declare a state of emergency, and said on Thursday that he \u201c<em>probably<\/em>\u201d will \u201c<em>do it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump has characterized the flow of illegal immigrants over the US\u2019 2,000-mile border with Mexico as an \u201c<em>invasion\u201d<\/em>\u00a0before. As thousands of Central American migrants made their way through Mexico towards the US border in October, Trump called their march an \u201c<em>invasion,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and warned them that \u201c<em>our military is waiting for you.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/448598-trump-says-invasion-border\/\">Trump calls situation at Mexico border \u2018an invasion\u2019 after trip to Texas \u2014 RT USA News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}