But it is not at the border between the United States and Mexico. This crisis is totally internal, at the border between raw executive might and our constitutional separation of powers.
And, while the impact of their actions may be limited, it is time for the United States Senate in general, and Utah’s senators in particular, to take a stand in defense of this all-important boundary.
The president of the United States, misusing a law intended to allow him to act in situations where the normal deliberations of Congress would be too slow to respond, has declared a thoroughly bogus national emergency so that he can raid the bank accounts of the Pentagon and other departments to, he says, quickly build a wall separating this nation from that one.