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How Congress and President Obama Made Trump’s Wall Possible
« on: February 15, 2019, 09:11:50 PM »

Just came across this.
So Obama was working with Trump! :lmao:
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Throughout the 2016 election, Donald Trump campaigned for president on the promise that he would build a wall along the southern border.

Six weeks after his election in November 2016, Congress overwhelmingly passed a statute—codified as 10 U.S.C § 284—that authorized the secretary of defense to support the “construction of roads and fences and installation of lighting to block drug smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States.” On Dec. 23, 2016, a month before leaving office, President Obama signed the 973-page bill into law without any objection to this provision.

Today, the Trump administration has invoked this express statutory delegation of authority to do what the statute says: “construct ... fences ... across international boundaries of the United States.”

Josh Blackman is an Associate Professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston, and the author of Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-congress-and-president-obama-made-trumps-wall-possible
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