President Donald Trump said he doesn’t plan to lift the state of emergency he declared at the southern border on his first day in office because “we have a massive emergency overall.”
“It’s an overall emergency on immigration,” the president said in an interview with “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” on NBC News. “If the courts don’t allow us to take people out, if we had to have a court case every single – think of it. Every single person, we have millions of people. If you have millions of court cases, figure two weeks a court case, it would be 300 years.”
Trump invoked the National Emergencies Act on Jan. 20 to declare that a national emergency exists at the southern border of the United States.
Trump said the “big emergency” right now is that there are “thousands of people that we want to take out, and we have some judges that…
