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President Trump's Border Wall

President Trump has received funds to build the border wall



 The Appeals Court has now denied the injunction that was trying to prohibit President Donald Trump to reallocate military money that was approved for other military projects.  President Trump is reallocating some of the military construction funds to build a border wall between the US and Mexico. Trump’s administration claimed that the country will suffer harm if it didn’t build the wall. He declared it a state of emergency last winter. The Appeals court ruled in Trump’s favor. Trump made a campaign promise to build a wall in 2016.

In my assessment of this case, I believe the money should not have been diverted from other military projects and should have been used the way Congress intended it to be used. This is a democracy and when something is voted on it shouldn’t be changed just because you don’t like the outcome of the vote. I feel that it was important for the injunction that prohibited the wall to be denied because we need the border wall in order to secure safety for our country. I believe that Trump knew that people who voted for him would be upset if he couldn’t get the wall built like he promised during his campaign in 2016. We the people voted for him based upon what we had envisioned for our country, so I feel he should fight for the wall. 

 Therefore, he declared a national emergency at the border with Mexico so that he could use the military construction money that was to be used elsewhere to help build this wall. The fact is that Trump knew that the only way he could get away with reallocating the money as if he declared it an emergency, stating there was a crisis at the border. 

This court battle relates to us as communication people because it displays how everyone is able to spread their own opinion within our society. This court battle relates to the first amendment in that people are allowed to freely speak about their feelings regarding Trump's border wall. They are able to agree or disagree with the administration freely. I feel this court battle relates to communication in that we are able to receive more information about the battle through people's different opinions.

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