{"id":1003907,"date":"2019-03-07T11:16:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T15:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003907"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:08:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:08:27","slug":"trumps-former-chief-of-staff-contradicts-his-justification-for-national-emergency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-former-chief-of-staff-contradicts-his-justification-for-national-emergency-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Former Chief Of Staff Contradicts His Justification For National Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, Trump\u2019s former chief of staff and former Secretary of Homeland Security, John Kelly, contradicted Trump\u2019s claims about immigrants and his justification for declaring a national emergency.<\/p>\n

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Kelly said immigrants seeking asylum were \u201coverwhelmingly not criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NBC News<\/a>: \u201cContrary to Trump\u2019s comments that many immigrants coming to the U.S. border are criminals, Kelly added: \u2018And by the way, they\u2019re overwhelmingly not criminals. They\u2019re people coming up here for economic purposes. I don\u2019t blame them for that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly said it was the U.S. demand for illicit drugs that destabilized countries south of the border and caused violence that forced most immigrants to flee their home countries.<\/p>\n

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Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cHis comments about the border situation run counter to how his former boss has portrayed the situation. Kelly talking about he garnered insight leading the U.S. Southern Command as a Marine general into how American demand for illicit drugs destabilized countries south of the border and pushed many to flee from violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly asserted that we do not \u201cneed a wall from sea to shining sea.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NBC News<\/a>: \u201cHe didn\u2019t defend Trump\u2019s decision to declare a national emergency to get funding for a border wall and said: \u2018We don\u2019t need a wall from sea to shining sea.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly said a full border wall would be a \u201cwaste of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Politico<\/a>: \u201cHe also reiterated his position that a border wall spanning the entirety of the U.S.-Mexico border would be a \u2018waste of money,\u2019 despite overseeing the beginning of what would become the longest government shutdown in U.S. history over Trump\u2019s demands that Congress fund such a project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly said he disagreed with Trump\u2019s decision to deploy U.S. troops to the southern border.<\/p>\n

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NBC News<\/a>: \u201cKelly also expressed disagreement with deploying U.S. troops, even National Guard troops, to the border, as Trump did last fall before the midterm elections. \u2018Generally speaking I would always look for another way to do it,\u2019 Kelly said.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, Trump\u2019s former chief of staff and former Secretary of Homeland Security, John Kelly, contradicted Trump\u2019s claims about immigrants and his justification for declaring a national emergency.   Kelly said immigrants seeking asylum were \u201coverwhelmingly not criminals.\u201d NBC News: \u201cContrary to Trump\u2019s comments that many immigrants coming to the U.S. border are criminals, Kelly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump\u2019s Former Chief Of Staff Contradicts His Justification For National Emergency - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-former-chief-of-staff-contradicts-his-justification-for-national-emergency-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-07T15:16:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:08:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-former-chief-of-staff-contradicts-his-justification-for-national-emergency-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-former-chief-of-staff-contradicts-his-justification-for-national-emergency-2\/\",\"name\":\"Trump\u2019s Former Chief Of Staff Contradicts His Justification For National Emergency - 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