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Biden administration to extend border wall touted by Donald Trump
Advocates called the move 'a slap in the face' after Biden vowed in 2020 not to build "another foot" of a border wall ? a hallmark of former President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON ? The Biden administration is building a new barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border despite President Joe Biden’s promise as a candidate not to add to a controversial border wall that's long been a signature of his predecessor Donald Trump.
Amid surging migration, the Biden administration is bypassing 26 federal laws, including environmental restrictions, to build a new section of the border wall in South Texas near the Rio Grande River, according to a Federal Registry notice made public Thursday.
Citing "high illegal entry" into the U.S., Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended expediting the wall's construction by using his authority to waive certain federal laws.
"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," Mayorkas wrote in the notice.
The additional barriers, as well as new roads in Starr County, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley, will be paid for by funding approved by Congress in 2019 during the Trump presidency.
As a 2020 presidential candidate, Biden vowed not to build "another foot" of a border wall that Trump has for years made the focus of his efforts to stop illegal immigration.
Biden said Thursday he had no choice because Congress did not agree to cancel the funding approved in a 2019 law before he became president.
"The money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to re-appropriate, to redirect that money," Biden told reporters. "They didn’t. They wouldn’t. In the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated for. I can’t stop that."
Asked whether he believes a border wall is effective, Biden responded, "No," contradicting the statement from Mayorkas justifying the project.
In June, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced the construction of a 20-mile barrier with steel bollard panels. The funding will come from $190 million remaining from a pool of $1.38 billion that Congress approved in 2019 for fencing in the Rio Grande Valley.
Mexican president criticizes Biden's wall expansion
Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border are on the rise again after initially dropping sharply in May and June after the Biden administration launched a new policy requiring migrants heading to the U.S. border to first seek protection in Mexico.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticized the wall expansion as he prepared to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Mexico City. "This authorization for the construction of the wall is a step backwards," he said, according to Reuters, adding that it "doesn't solve the problem" of migration. "The causes must be addressed.”
In another step aimed at surging migration, the Biden administration announced it will resume deportation flights of Venezuelans who entered the U.S. illegally. Officials said it follows an agreement with the Venezuelan government to accept Venezuelan nationals who fled their country.
Two senior Biden administration officials, who discussed the move on the condition of anonymity, said 66,000 Venezuelan migrants have entered the U.S. legally since the administration announced the new policy.
A political, economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela over the past decade has pushed at least 7.3 million people to migrate, mostly to neighboring Latin American countries, but more recently to the U.S through Mexico. Many have made their journeys through the dangerous Darien Gap, a remote jungle between Colombia and Panama that is treacherous and often deadly.
Abbott, whose office had no immediate comment on Mayorkas' border-wall announcement, has been the nation's harshest critic of the Democratic administration's approach to matters of unlawful immigration and border security. The Texas state legislature has allocated nearly $10 billion since Biden took office for Abbott's Operation Lone Star that has sent thousands of National Guard soldiers and troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety to South Texas.
Texas has also laid miles of razor wire and has built barriers on private land with permission from owners as part of the operation.
On Thursday, the state met the Biden Justice Department before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans for a hearing over whether Texas will be allowed to keep its controversial 1,000-foot string of buoys in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass while the federal lawsuit over the matter plays out. The court's three-judge panel did not issue a ruling after hearing from Texas and federal lawyers.
Contributing: Maureen Groppe, Associated Press
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