The Senate Voted to End Emergency on the Border. But Hezbollah, ISIS, gangs and drug cartels didn’t

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The Senate Voted to End Emergency on the Border

But Hezbollah, ISIS, gangs and drug cartels didn’t get the memo.
Wed Oct 16, 2019 Michael Cutler


On September 25, 2019 the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch posted a disturbing report, “Senate votes to end border emergency under which Trump redirected military funds to wall construction” that began with the following paragraph:

    The Senate again approved a resolution to end President Trump’s national emergency at the southern border, with Republicans joining Democrats in a bid to prevent the president from redirecting military funds toward a border wall, though Trump was expected to veto it again.

The report went on to note that the Republicans control the Senate and ended with this sentence:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/senate-voted-end-emergency-border-michael-cutler/

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Remember this?

Bill Funds Border Security -- in Libya, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Egypt ...

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The 1,665-page spending bill the Republican-controlled Congress is planning to pass this week includes multiple measures that seemingly demonstrate a commitment to securing the border -- in Libya, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.

It does not include the $1.4 billion President Donald Trump requested to begin building the wall he promised to build along the U.S.-Mexico border.

But, the bill makes clear, Jordan's border must be secured.

The section that appropriates money for the "Global War on Terrorism" provides: "That these funds may be used to support the Government of Jordan, in such amounts as the Secretary of Defense may determine, to enhance the ability of the armed forces of Jordan to increase or sustain security along its borders..."

The bill even gives a special status to the part of this aide Egypt will use to secure its border.

Under the terms of the funding bill, U.S. taxpayer money will also go to Ethiopia "for border security and counter terrorism programs." It will go to the Lebanese Armed Forces "to professionalize the LAF and to strengthen border security and combat terrorism, including training and equipping the LAF to secure Lebanon's borders." It will go to Libya to "improve border security." And it will go "to support programs to train border and customs officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan."

But thanks to the deal that Republican and Democratic leaders made in Congress, it will not go to fund the border wall President Trump vowed to voters he would build if he were elected.

https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2017/05/03/bill-funds-border-security--in-libya-ethiopia-pakistan-egypt-n2321410

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