The Trump National Address on the Border Wall Shutdown…..

Every major television network handed President Donald Trump prime airtime on Tuesday night to repeat debunked lies about immigration.

Trump made no new announcements and broke no new ground in his prime-time televised address. He repeated his demand for $5.7 billion in border wall money to end the nearly three-week partial shutdown of the federal government, offering the deal as the only solution to a major national security crisis. He put the onus on congressional lawmakers to craft such a plan to reopen more than half a dozen federal agencies that have remained partly shuttered since before Christmas.

“How much more American blood must we shed before Congress does its job?” Trump asked during the address. “For those who refuse to compromise in the name of job security, I would ask, imagine if it were your child, your husband or your wife whose life was so cruelly shattered and totally broken. To every member of Congress, pass a bill that ends this crisis.”

Trump repeated several mistruths in an attempt to tout the barrier, casting migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. as criminals and listing off a slew of crimes that critics saw as an attempt to generate fear…..

Huffington Post….

“This is a choice between right and wrong, justice and injustice,” Trump said in his eight-minute address, describing it as “a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.”

The president detailed the ongoing migration and illegal immigration crisis but did not declare an official State of Emergency, which would allow him to shift funding to fund border security without Congress.

“This is the cycle of human suffering I am determined to end,” he said.

He noted that migrant women and children were “victims” of the broken immigration system, specifically citing the more than 20,000 children brought illegally into the United States.

“These children are used as human pawns by vicious coyotes and ruthless gangs,” he said.

The president described the ongoing problems with drugs and crime coming across the border, endangering the lives of Americans.

He again stated his request for a $5.7 billion wall, but said that it would be a “steel barrier instead of a concrete wall.”

“This is just common sense,” he said.

He defended the concept of a border wall, disputing that it was “immoral” as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted……

Breitbart….