As well, contrary to what your debate 101 professor might have taught you, appealing to authority is not always a fallacy. If I had said "Mr Obama and Mr Holde

As well, contrary to what your debate 101 professor might have taught you, appealing to authority is not always a fallacy. If I had said "Mr Obama and Mr Holder think the border is dangerous" then sure. But what I said was that a US president and attorney general have previously used the loose writing of the 2001 AUMF to expand the "War on Terror" to new theaters. Therefore it is likely a similar case can be made to expand the theater to the southern border.