The letter opposing the wall, entered into Congressional Record Monday by Senator Schumer.
Signed by all the old goblins who got us here:
(Excerpts):
Illegal border crossings are near forty-year
lows.
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There is no documented terrorist or na-
tional security emergency at the southern bor-
der.
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There is no emergency related to violent
crime at the southern border.
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There is no human or drug trafficking emer-
gency that can be addressed by a wall at the
southern border.
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This proclamation will only exacerbate the
humanitarian concerns that do exist at the
southern border.
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Redirecting funds for the claimed ‘‘national
emergency’’ will undermine U.S. national secu-
rity and foreign policy interests.
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The situation at the border does not require
the use of the armed forces, and a wall is unnec-
essary to support the use of the armed forces.
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There is no basis for circumventing the ap-
propriations process with a declaration of a na-
tional emergency at the southern border.
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Respectfully submitted,
Signed/*
Madeleine K. Albright, Jeremy B. Bash,
John B. Bellinger III, Daniel Benjamin,
Antony Blinken, John O. Brennan, R. Nich-
olas Burns, William J. Burns, Johnnie Car-
son, James Clapper.
David S. Cohen, Eliot A. Cohen, Ryan
Crocker, Thomas Donilon, Jen Easterly,
Nancy Ely-Raphel, Daniel P. Erikson, John
D. Feeley, Daniel F. Feldman, Jonathan
Finer.
Jendayi Frazer, Suzy George, Phil Gordon,
Chuck Hagel, Avril D. Haines, Luke Hartig,
Heather A. Higginbottom, Roberta Jacobson,
Gil Kerlikowske, John F. Kerry.
Prem Kumar, John E. McLaughlin, Lisa O.
Monaco, Janet Napolitano, James D. Nealon,
James C. O’Brien, Matthew G. Olsen, Leon E.
Panetta, Anne W. Patterson, Thomas R.
Pickering.
Amy Pope, Samantha J. Power, Jeffrey
Prescott, Nicholas Rasmussen, Alan Charles
Raul, Dan Restrepo, Susan E. Rice, Anne C.
Richard, Eric P. Schwartz, Andrew J. Sha-
piro.
Wendy R. Sherman, Vikram Singh, Dana
Shell Smith, Jeffrey H. Smith, Jake Sul-
livan, Strobe Talbott, Linda Thomas-Green-
field, Arturo A. Valenzuela.