Donald Trump extends border Emergency Order until 2022

Back in 2019 Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the Southern border in order to reallocate some defense funds to build the wall on the border. Now, according to this story, Donald Trump has extended the national emergency for another year. Here is more:

President Donald Trump has extended his national border emergency until February 2022, giving President-elect Joe Biden a helping hand to offset the growing number of migrants heading toward the southern border of the United States.

“The ongoing border security and humanitarian crisis at the southern border of the United States continues to threaten our national security, including by exacerbating the effect of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 … but further action is needed to address the humanitarian crisis and to control unlawful migration and the flow of narcotics and criminals across the southern border of the United States,” said Trump’s January 16 announcement of the emergency extension.

I think we all know that this is all for naught at this point as Joe Biden is simply going to reverse the national emergency if not on his first day in office than shortly thereafter. And unlike every single Executive Order declared by Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s will not be challenged in the courts.

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