Vox Media reported on Monday that a bi-partisan statement was released by “more than 50 former top national security officials” which challenged the evidence Donald Trump has used to justify the declaration of a national emergency along the country’s southern border.
The letter calls on Trump to provide that evidence using “his agencies’ own official data, documents and statements,” and includes statistics from the Department of Homeland Security that dispute Trump’s claim that a crisis is occurring at the southern border. The writers argue that more terrorists enter the US by air than across the border and say that only six terrorists were detected at the southern border between October 2017 and March 2018.
For more on Monday’s letter, read the article from Vox here.
