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Trump's national emergency: Defying democracy?

February 21, 2019

US President Trump declared a national emergency over his border wall with Mexico. And he now sees German cars as a security threat. Is this lawful or is he flouting democratic rules? Guests: Torrey Taussig (Brookings Institution), Ana Maria Alvarez (Migration Hub), Malte Lehming (Tagesspiegel)

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Quadriga DEU+ENG Torrey Taussig
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Torrey Taussig  is a Fellow in Foreign Policy at The Brookings Institution, a Washington-DC think tank. She is based in Berlin this year as a Fellow with the Bosch Foundation. And she believes: “President Trump's decision to declare a national emergency over the border wall is his latest manufactured crisis. But he may have the power to get away with it.”
  

Quadriga DEU+ENG Malte Lehming
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Malte Lehming works for the Berliner Tagesspiegel. And he says: „If Trump succeeds in building his wall with the help of the emergency decree, his popularity will grow.”
  

 

Quadriga DEU+ENG Ana Alvarez
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Ana Maria Alvarez is founder and CEO of “migration hub” an organization helps migrants here in Berlin. She thinks: "The threat is the terrible rhetoric against migrants and people in despair by using them to do policy based on fake news."