The US opposition accuses Trump of "violating the constitution" for declaring the state of emergency by the wall

The Democrats' response to Donald Trump's "national emergency" declaration on the border with Mexico has not bothered to happen. They considered "illegal" the measure that would allow Donald Trump to build the border wall with Mexico, and ensured that such actions "violent" the Constitution of the United States.

"The president's illegal statement that a non-existent crisis is seriously violating our Constitution and making the United States a less secure country by stealing urgent funds from Defense for the security of our armed forces and our country," said the president. Democrat. the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, in a joint statement.

New York Attorney General Letitia James also announced that will appeal to justice the declaration made by the president of the republic to obtain the necessary funds for the construction of the wall without going through the Congress.

Trump, who has denounced a "drug invasion, an invasion of criminal gangs, an invasion of people," seeks to use some $ 6 billion initially allocated to the Pentagon.

"The declaration of national emergency without legitimate cause will create a constitutional crisis," said James in a statement. "We will not tolerate this abuse of power and we will fight it with all the legal measures at our disposal."

In the democratic ranks, it is considered that one serious abuse of power and they see in this decision a weak political maneuver of a president weakened by the loss of the House of Representatives in November and his retirement at the end of January from the confrontation in which he had clashed with Congress on the issue of immigration.

Trump made this announcement before flying in the afternoons and spending the weekend in his luxurious club in Mar-a-Lago Florida (southeast), that he call his "Winter White House".

The measure has also been severely criticized by several organizations and NGOs. "What a shame for any member of Congress who does not clearly and vigorously oppose this illegitimate invocation"Of a national emergency, said the powerful American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

A law pbaded in 1976, the National Emergencies Act, authorizes the President of the United States to declare a "national emergency" the granting of extraordinary powers. Several presidents of the United States have used this procedure in the past, but under very different and much less controversial circumstances.

Jimmy Carter invoked the urgency after taking hostages at the US Embbady in Tehran (Iran) in 1979. George W. Bush did so after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and, a few years later, Barack Obama resorted to during the H1N1 flu epidemic.

Peter Schuck, emeritus professor of law at Yale University, said "the fact that the president can have the power to waste billions of dollars on a stupid campaign promise it is, in itself, scandalous ".

In a New York Times column, Schuck said Congress should more rigorously define the conditions under which the president can use the national emergency law, approved in 1976.

"In the long run, this issue is more crucial to the vitality of our democracy than if President Trump finally got his wall," he said.