(The Center Square) – In a stunning reversal on border security policy, the Biden administration plans to build about 20 miles of border wall in south Texas as the surge in illegal migration into the U.S. continued in September.
President Joe Biden, when he first took office in January 2021, ended all border wall construction initiated by the administration for former President Donald Trump.
Since then, illegal border crossings have skyrocketed to record levels, leading the state of Texas to launch its own multi-billion dollar border security effort known as Operation Lone Star and Democratic sanctuary cities across the country to declare states of emergency over the influx of foreign nationals being bused to their communities from the southern border.
Now, the Biden administration says it will build about 20 miles of border wall in Starr County, Texas, saying it will use funding allocated by Congress in 2019 to do so.
“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,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in an online statement late Wednesday.
Republicans in Congress have called for Mayorkas to either resign or be impeached over the border crisis.
In September, more than 255,000 foreign nationals were apprehended or reported evading capture after illegally entering the southwest border, a surge that began when the Biden administration changer immigration policy including ending construction of the wall.
Border agents have told The Center Square that Mexican drug cartels have exploited Biden’s border policies to illegally smuggle into the U.S. untold amounts of fentanyl and foreign nationals.
Dan McCaleb is the executive editor of The Center Square. He welcomes your comments. Contact Dan at [email protected].
shutting the stable door after the horses have bolted
” Most Nations don’t die from invasion they die from internal rottennness.” Abraham Lincoln.
And yet FOOLS continue to elect treasonous, destructive, unethical, dishonest, immoral, demonic Democrats to rule over them.
This treasonous, destructive, immoral, lying, woke, socialist Democrat Party, their RINOs and their corrupt, demented, obedient sock-puppet president Joe Biden has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
I thought a ‘wall’, was RACIST and homophobic (and all the other leftist trigger words).
“Clearly A Ciilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does wil lack the energy and conviction to defend it’self.”
Jean Franious Revel
But, but, but the border is already secure!
A good place to start would be to close ALL the holes , our Government opened up in the border wall recently. 14 of them or more if they added more after the reported 14! Get those welders working on it now!
I remember a story i heard a few months back, where a homeowner out in new mexico, BUILT HIS OWN “Wall” by digging a 30 feet ditch, and using the dirt to make a 20ft tall rampart on HIS SIDE.. AND THE FEDS< came onto his property and "ORDERED" JHIM To fill it in, so it would be 'safe' for illegals to Cross it.
I heard a similar story from AZ< where a home owner with HIS OWN MONEY, built a wall, and the feds CUT A DOOR IN IT, and told him he had NO CAPACITY TO SHUT or lock that door…
SO The feds, don't CARE What walls or other boundaries there are, THEY WILL OPEN THEM the hizzle up to let illegals through.
We would not need a wall of you just enforced the law. But new York AG just said no one was above the law. Apparently she was lying to the general public.
Don’t get sucked into believing Biden is going to secure the border. This is nothing but a political game to appease Democrat mayors who are overrun with illegals and to prove that walls don’t work. A few miles of border wall with no policy change will not stop the hordes of people crossing our southern border illegally.
Exactly. 20 miles, IN A PREDOMINATE DEM CONTROLLED part of texas, won’t mean jack squat.
AND that’s assuming he actually DOES BUILD IT.