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Actual national emergency:

"The Trump administration is still tearing young children away from their parents when they cross the US-Mexico border unlawfully, despite formally ending the policy of family separations last summer."

theguardian.com/us-news/2019/f…
Actual national emergency:

Our ability to grow our own food, drink potable water, and for our children to survive as climate change poses an existential threat to all life on this planet.

cnn.com/2019/02/11/hea…
Actual national emergency:

22 veterans who served this country take their own lives, every single day.

theguardian.com/us-news/2018/s…
Actual national emergency:

Moms and babies dying due to inadequate healthcare, with black women disproportionately affected.

m.chron.com/local/prognosi…
Actual national emergency:

Gun violence takes the lives of 100 Americans every day.

America's uniquely weak gun laws allow 1,700 kids and teens die by gun homicide every year.

Gun violence is a national emergency.

nytimes.com/2019/02/14/opi…
Actual national emergency:

10 years after worst recession since the Great Depression, we've been at war for 20 years, have more student debt, and can’t afford to live where we grew up without getting second and third jobs.

cnbc.com/2018/01/18/few…
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