The difference between a manufactured emergency and a real emegency

The Ohio Jobs and Justice PAC has a website that they have labeled as a "Victims of Illegal Aliens Memorial in honor of the thousands of American citizens killed each year by Illegal Aliens."

Thousands every year?  In the deaths identified below, all are alleged killings except when the suspect was convicted.

Officer Ronil Singh was murdered on 12/26/2018 by an illegal alien during a traffic stop.

12 year old Clinton Howell was murdered on 12/18/2018 by an illegal alien in a drive-by shooting.

51 year old Rocky Jones was murdered on 12/16/2018 by an illegal alien in a convenience store robbery.

76 year old Robert Page was murdered on 11/8/2018 by an illegal alien who was his tenant.

21 year old Sabrina Star was murdered on 11/2/2018 by an illegal alien in a shooting.

38 year old Steven Marler was murdered on 11/1/2018 by an illegal alien who was his roommate

23 year old Aron Hampton was murdered on 11/1/2018 by an illegal alien who was his former roommate.

14 year old Justin James Dennis Lee was killed on 6/11/2018 by an illegal alien in a case of reckless driving.

20 year old Mollie Tibbitts was killed by an illegal alien after she went missing on 7/18/2018.

Those nine victims are all of those on this memorial website who were killed in 2018.  Sure doesn't sound like thousands.

All of those deaths are tragic.  Would a wall on our nation's southern border have prevented all of them?  Not in Clinton Howell's case, unless the man suspected of his murder entered the U.S. illegally from Jamaica by way of Mexico.

But that is not a national emergency.

In 2018 there were mass shootings at:

Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL

Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, CA

The Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA

Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, TX

Bakersfield, CA

Columbia, TN

Robstown, TX

Prices Corner, DE

Annapolis, MD

Orlando, FL

Ponder, TX

Yountville, CA

Detroit, MI

Paintsville, KY

Melcroft, PA

In every single one of those mass shootings, at least five people died.

That is a national emergency.

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The public debt has increased by more than $2 trillion since Trump was inaugurated.  It now stands at $22 trillion for the first time ever.  While the debt to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio isn't in the danger zone yet, at 104.1%, it is close.  The fact that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was projected to add $1.5 trillion by itself between 2018 and 2018 tacked on to the increase in public debt already is staggering.

That is a national emergency.

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Trump said he didn't need to declare the border a national emergency, he just did it to get the wall done faster.

If it were a true national emergency, would he have departed for a golf weekend at his Mar a Lago home immediately after signing the declaration?

Uh, NO!!