Hey, remember during the 2020 campaign when Biden said he wouldn’t build another foot of border wall? And how they have tried to tear some down and open others?
Biden administration waives 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction in South Texas
The Biden administration announced they waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction on Wednesday, marking the administration’s first use of a sweeping executive power employed often during the Trump presidency.
The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the U.S. Federal Registry with few details outlining the construction in Starr County, Texas, which is part of a busy Border Patrol sector seeing “high illegal entry.” According to government data, about 245,000 illegal entries have been recorded in this region during the current fiscal year.
“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, stated in the notice.
The Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act and Endangered Species Act were some of the federal laws waived by DHS to make way for construction that will use funds from a congressional appropriation in 2019 for border wall construction. The waivers avoid time-consuming reviews and lawsuits challenging violation of environmental laws.
I wonder what changed their minds? Perhaps all the Democrat governors and mayors screaming at Biden?
Starr County’s hilly ranchlands, sitting between Zapata and McAllen, Texas, is home to about 65,000 residents sparsely populating about 1,200 square miles (3,108 square kilometers) that form part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
Although no maps were provided in the announcement, a previous map shared during the gathering of public comments shows the piecemeal construction will add up to an additional 20 miles to the existing border barrier system in the area. Starr County Judge Eloy Vera said it will start south of the Falcon Dam and go past Salineño, Texas.
OK, only about 20 miles, but, it’s a start. Or, is it? Is this something the Biden admin will actually do, or, are they just making noise with zero intention of building a foot of border wall?
Meanwhile, one of the Dems screaming at Biden
(Politico) New York City Mayor Eric Adams is traveling to three countries in Central and South America this week in part to personally discourage migrants from making the trek to the city, where more than 100,000 asylum-seekers have arrived since last year.
The mayor said he will be appearing on radio stations, television channels and newspaper pages to deter potential migrants from coming to New York, which is part of a broader campaign of trying to discourage asylum-seekers that has also included fliers handed out at the border and trying to limit stays at shelters.
Yeah, the mayor of a sanctuary city is telling illegals to go ahead and come to the US but stay away from SCNY.
They already accomplished bringing in 10 million new “citizens”. Now they can pretend to be “tough on the immigration problem” and have cake and eat it too. The bar for the Democrats should be set at, admit you were wrong and deport all the ones you already let in. Insert closing the barn door metaphor.
It’s all talk smoke and mirrors nothing will ever be built he’ll just say it’s going to be.
He’s a lying piece of crap
How ’bout that? Governor Greg Abbott sends some busloads of
illegal immigrants‘migrants’ to Democrat-run ‘sanctuary cities,’ and all of a sudden the Democrats are talking about finishing the border wall! President Trump was right all along, and Governor Abbott has proven himself to be a genius.Mayorkas has ALWAYS said that the wall needed to be built, comrades! It says so right here in the revised history….
I’m confused-so it’s not “racist” to build a wall when far-left libs want do it?…
Who said “immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country”? Hitler for sure. Now Donald J Trump.
Why are MAGAts not happy with Brandon building more wall??
Next, Brandon will claim Mexico is paying for the wall.
#LGBFJB
#Trump2024
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Was Hitler right about immigrants poisoning the blood of Germany? Because right about now it is obvious and illegal immigrants criminals, savages, drug addicts drug pushers human traffickers all of these people that the Democrats are bringing in are absolutely poisoning the blood of America. And if you can’t see that then you’re an enemy of America.
Who said we’re not happy? I don’t know of any patriotic America loving person who doesn’t want secure borders and finish the wall we’ve wanted that for years and you’ve ignored us for years because your loyalty lies to foreign adversaries and not Americans. You believe in the put everybody first except America group. You are one of the most unpatriotic people I’ve ever run across.
Commenter: illegal immigrants, criminals, savages, drug addicts, drug pushers, human traffickers
That’s exactly what Trump said! Hitler was talking about those loathsome, dishonest, tricky, hook-nosed Jews. Trump uses the same language to describe Latinos.
Hitler murdered Jews, gays, the disabled, Roma (“gypsies”), Poles, in fact, anyone that was diluting the “blood” of Germany.
Trump was intent on rallying people just like you. Trump is your Hitler.
You know who else weaponized the government against their political opponents besides Brandon?
If you answered Hitler you win the prize.
#Trump2024
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Trump built a wall. That was BAD. They dismantled it. Now THEY want a wall. That’s good! It’s all political Kabuki Theatre bullshit. After rebuilding a wall theyll decide walls are evil again…and tear it down. Who cares…after all, it’s not their money. It’s ours.
And Brandon has been selling the material stockpiled for the original wall. Probably at scrap prices to boot. Now, new material will have to be purchased, if there’s any available. Or just buy the stuff you just sold back for retail, if it’s still available. Excellent financial management, Demo-socialist style.
When the campaign heats up, Sleepy Joe is going to claim the wall was his idea all along. His “unindicted co-conspirators” in the leftmedia will play along, and the ignorant fools who support him will buy it.