The Biden administration has authorized construction to close gaps in a U.S southern border wall near Arizona’s Yuma, citing safety concerns.
The authorization comes from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday concerning a border wall project spearheaded by the Trump administration.
President Joe Biden had campaigned on halting all border wall construction, and on his first day in office signed a proclamation to terminate Department of Defense funds the previous White House had diverted for the project.
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Mayorkas said U.S. Customs and Border Protection has now been authorized to fill four gaps located within the incomplete border barrier near the Morelos Dam in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector, stating it will address “immediate life and safety risks.”
“Due to the proximity to the Morelos Dam and the swift moving Colorado River, this area presents safety and life hazard risks for migrants attempting to cross into the United States where there is a risk of drownings and injuries from falls,” he said in a statement. “This area also poses a life and safety risk to first responders and agents responding to incidents in this area.”
DOOCY: "Why is the Biden administration building a border wall in Arizona?"
KJP: "We are not finishing the wall. We are cleaning up the mess the prior administration left behind in their failed attempt to build a wall." pic.twitter.com/3tc7cctvhX
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The Yuma sector has increasingly become a popular crossing point for migrants in the last year, with encounters with U.S. Border Patrol agents having jumped by 292.3% during the first nine months of this fiscal year compared to the same period last year, according to CBP data.
A number of migrants have also been killed in this sector, including six alone between June 12-18, according to Chris T. Clem, CBP chief patrol agent for the Yuma Sector.
On June 6, a 5-year-old girl drowned in the Colorado River near the Morelos Dam.
While the funds for the original project came from the Department of Defense, Mayorkas said the project will now be funded by the DHS.
“This project supports CBP’s and DHS’ priority to deploy modern, effective border measures and also improving safety and security along the southwest border,” he said.
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The treachery of the treasonous, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
The timing of the Biden administration’s announcement to complete open segments of the border wall near Yuma, Arizona, could be to “help one of their own,” said Brandon Judd, president for the National Border Patrol Council, as Sen. Mark Kelly, (D-AZ), faces a tough re-election fight amid criticism from the GOP over border security and immigration.
Trump’s COVID Vaccine, Trump’s wall,,,,,when he finally gets us back to Trump’s $2/gallon gas prices Joe will have returned us back to the day he took office which should have been taken by Trump all along. Too late to take back the $80 billion in military hardware left for the Taliban in Afghanistan, much of which they sold to the Iranians, Chinese and the Russians to use against us and the Ukrainians. This is what you get when an unelected foreign controlled American Liberal media decides who is to run the country, then continues to run it themselves in ultimate regret and certain failure where the value of the entertainment must always exceed the needs of THE PEOPLE.
SINCE we the people already paid for all that border wall stuff, just SITTING IN THE DESERT rusting away, WHY NOT USE IT ALL!
Build the wall in the Yuma sector, so Mark Traitor Kelly can get reelected, right Joe???????
It needs to be completed all the way through.
IT shouldn’t have been STOPPED when trump started it!
KJP: “We are not finishing the wall. We are cleaning up the mess the prior administration left behind in their failed attempt to build a wall”.
Wait until the next election and “We, the people” will be saying, “We ARE building the walls and cleaning up the mess (inflation, recession, high gas prices, lack of baby food, illregal invaders) the prior administration left behind in their failed attempt to make it 1984.”
Where are the calls of bigot ! racist ! from the foaming at the mouth leftist media ??
No where to be found.. AS we all predicted.