In response to an ongoing crisis at the southern border, the Biden administration is building more of the wall in line with Trump’s policy. It will fill four gaps along Arizona’s border, near Yuma, where border crossings have surged: 235,230 migrants attempted to cross the border in Yuma Sector in the fiscal year 2022. The Rio Grande Valley and Del Rio have encountered more migrants – 326,177 and 377,994, respectively.
Under Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol conducts the Yuma Morelos Dam Project, sealing the gaps in the wall. As a result of the area’s proximity to the Morelos Dam and Colorado River, migrants trying to enter the United States face life-threatening risks such as drownings and falls. First responders and agents responding to incidents in this area are also at risk of severe injury or death.
This is an interesting development in light of Biden’s pledge not to finish the wall as President. Under my administration, there will be no wall built, Biden had said.
Peter Doocy of Fox News grilled White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about this reversal, asking why the Biden administration is building a border wall in Arizona. According to Jean-Pierre, the Biden administration was not finishing former President Trump’s border wall; she blamed the Trump administration for the “mess .” According to Jean-Pierre, the administration is not completing the wall but clearing up the mess left by the prior administration’s failed wall project. Then Doocy asked about the comment then Presidential candidate Biden had made when he stated that ‘not another foot of wall will be constructed during my administration.’ Doocy then asked, what changed? In response, the White House press secretary said they were not finishing the wall. Doocy wanted to know if the Biden administration still considers the wall racist because of Democratic comments in 2019. The White House press secretary responded that a border wall is an ineffective use of taxpayer dollars.
It is impossible for them to admit that they were wrong and that walls do, in fact, work. That would concede a major defeat by acknowledging that the walls work and granting credit to the previous administration. The administration, however, looks at the numbers: 1,634,104 people have crossed the border in FY 2022 as of July 18. As of June, almost 1.05 million illegal aliens had been released into the country’s interior, and it is larger than the population of Biden’s home state of Delaware. According to Brandon Judd, President of the National Border Patrol Council, the Biden administration’s move to close the gaps in the Yuma border wall is part of an effort to help Senator Mark Kelly (D., Ariz.) in his tough reelection campaign. According to Kelly’s office, he has been pushing to fill those gaps for months and has secured a commitment from the administration.
Building the wall, possibly the symbol most closely associated with the Trump presidency, has returned. Whether it is to help a Democrat — as Judd suggests, increase Biden’s popularity, or because the administration recognizes the crisis is detrimental to the country, the fact remains that it is symbolic of Trump’s Presidency and that construction (even if it is to fill gaps) has resumed.
Thank goodness Biden is doing something finally BUT he needs to use remaining material which the American people have paid for and is rusting on the ground. DO NOT agree with Biden’s executive orders to undo everything President Trump did for America. He needs to go.
Thank goodness Biden is doing something finally BUT he needs to use remaining material which the American people have paid for and is rusting on the ground. DO NOT agree with Biden’s executive orders to undo everything President Trump did for America. He needs to go. BYE BYE BIDEN.
too damn late let’s go Brandon
So, i hear Desantis has gathered people to finish border wall also.. fact? We need complete wall. It IS PAID FOR, CONSTRUCTION WORKERS PAID FOR. military ready to work. Stupid to have stopped the construction, period. Keep sending immigrants east to vermont, Dc, Mass. San francisco to Pelosi home. 🌞
I am always in favor of good things taking place, regardless of who is doing them. I won’t bash people for doing what I have wanted all along, just because they are now doing it.
Good! Biden’s hand was forced to go against what he said he would not do, and by a democrat. A loss for Biden is a win for the people. It’s a great day in America!
finish all of the wall not just a portion!!!!
Thank you for keeping the weak pulse alive! So much stuff is going on that the ill media wants us to be lulled asleep! NOT! Now we need to cross out the abortion Word and call it what it is Murdering babies! Can you figure out if the drought is only in the States that want Murder? GOD does work in mysterious ways!
thanks
Like closing the barn door after the horse escaped! Can the knothead reverse all the illegals back across the border the other way? Of course no but stupid Biden has allowed thousands in and we are stuck with them. Park them on his doorstep! Teh give them the key to his front door and the number of his bank account.
Who really gives a flying rats ass who completes the Southern border wall. Would you idiots stop fighting over it and just complete it. With all these illegals pouring into the USA and the amount of fentanyl coming into our country you politicians in Washington should hang your heads in shame. You’d rather fight like 3 year old children than look at the positive outcome with the wall up and completed. It’s a wonder that each and every person who works for border patrol hasn’t quit because of all your stupidity. And, biden and his trashy vp who was supposed to be the border czar she hasn’t even moved her ass down there to see how bad it is. This country is going to hell in a handbasket with all your infighting. How stupid can you all be????
They are in a disparate attempt to salvage their weak voter base and just as everything they say is a lie with the hope that someone will believe this typical Demoncratic doublespeak. Does anyone wonder why 40,000 Dems just changed to the Republican party.
The purpose of restarting wall construction is to gain the vote of Kyrsten Sinema on the near trillion dollar green energy waste-a-thon that has bloated almost triple from the bill originally voted on by a bipartisan group of Senators. To bypass the Senate filibuster rule, Democrats and Biden agreed that the original smaller bill would be the limit of this set of expenditures. After getting the original bill through the Senate, the Democrats have renegued on this agreement and added huge money in the reconciliation process which does not allow Senate filibuster. Democrats have here proven their dishonest nature. NEVER trust a Democrat!
P.S. After this bill passes, construction on the Arizona wall will stop as they will no longer need the vote of Sinema.
What does that mean – Clearing up the mess left by the former administration. Does that mean they are “clearing it up” by erecting the remaining materials left by Trump that were not allowed to be used after Biden took office and calling it a mess so they don’t have to back peddle on their decision to continue to build the wall?? There you go again you spineless liberals. When caught red-handed blame the other guy. Just admit you were wrong and let’s move on.
All I can say is…its about dzmned time
SOMEONE in this administration grew a brain!
All I can say is…its about damned time
SOMEONE in this administration grew a brain! Now let’s open the Keystone XL pipeline.
My opinion is that Biden is just doing this now because he knows the Dems will lose in November. He’s looking for sympathy. I don’t think the American citizens are fooled by his action. Look what he did in the Apha. Foreign countries are ridiculing him because of his stupidity. Furthermore – not related to the “wall” – what the hell is Pelosi doing in Taiwan? Does anyone know?