By The FirstThe Biden administration will construct vast sections of a new wall along the US-Mexico border to slow the influx of illegal migrants into the United States.
“There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas,” Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary, said
From the NY POST:
DHS’s decision to build more walls contradicts Biden’s previous promise to end the construction.
“Building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution,” Biden said in a proclamation to stop the building on Jan. 20, 2021.
US Customs and Border Protection argued that the planned construction, which could add up to 20 miles of barriers to the existing wall in the area, does not violate Biden’s proclamation.
“Congress appropriated fiscal year 2019 funds for the construction of border barrier in the Rio Grande Valley, and DHS is required to use those funds for their appropriated purpose,” CBP said in a statement.
