Border emergency hits six months; ball back in Congress´ court
(WorldNews Mexico)

Thursday marks six months since President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on the southern border, a notable anniversary because it gives Congress another shot at ending it. The flashpoint in the debate remains funding for the construction of a wall along the Mexican border, a prominent pledge made during Trump’s 2016 presidential bid that now hangs over the 2020 campaign. Most of the money the president would tap through his Feb. 15 emergency declaration to help build the wall would come from the Pentagon — a fact that has riled both sides of the aisle, though not enough Republicans thus far to force a change in policy. Under the law authorizing the executive...