TIL Desk/World/Washington/ Sixteen states, including California and New York, on Monday sued United States President Donald Trump for declaring a national emergency to fulfill his long-pending demand of building a wall along the border with Mexico.
A news agency reported that the lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in San Francisco, states that the US President cannot transfer funds for construction of any wall along the border as it is the Congress that controls the expenditures.
The lawsuit, California et al. v. Trump et al., accuses Trump of “an unconstitutional and unlawful scheme”, while adding that the states are trying “to protect their residents, natural resources, and economic interests from President Donald J. Trump’s flagrant disregard of fundamental separation of powers principles engrained in the United States Constitution.”
“Contrary to the will of Congress, the president has used the pretext of a manufactured ‘crisis’ of unlawful immigration to declare a national emergency and redirect federal dollars appropriated for drug interdiction, military construction and law enforcement initiatives toward building a wall on the United States-Mexico border,” the lawsuit adds.
