Build The Wall!

[LuFins Dad]

[George K]

I don't get it. If walls are bad, gaps are good, right?

[Jolly]

By initiating legal challenges, halting all wall construction and then trying to restart some of it, the Dems and Liden Menstruation have probably spent more money than Trump.

[taiwan_girl]

Being the press secretary has to be one of the "suckiest" jobs out there. LOL

[George K]

Well, well.

Lookie here:

Biden administration waives 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction
ABC News
McALLEN, Texas -- The Biden administration announced it 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 so far this fiscal year in the Rio Grande Valley Sector which contains 21 counties.

“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.

In a statement Wednesday, CBP said the project is consistent with that 2021 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,” the statement said. “CBP remains committed to protecting the nation’s cultural and natural resources and will implement sound environmental practices as part of the project covered by this waiver.”

The announcement prompted political debate by the Democratic administration facing an increase of migrants entering through the southern border in recent months, including thousands who entered the U.S. through Eagle Pass at the end of September.

Remember, the border is secure. Why shouldn't we trust our government?

[LuFins Dad]

But I thought the wall was already built? DJT: “We built the wall, we completed the wall.”

So obviously this is fake news.

[Jolly]

Okay, then let's stop whatever we're doing.

Just ship the new tourists to D.C.

[George K]

In determining that these "barriers" need to be built, the Biden administration is waiving 25 or so environmental laws.

Why is the Biden administration hell-bent on ignoring established law?

[Copper]

@taiwan_girl said in Build The Wall!:

Being the press secretary has to be one of the "suckiest" jobs out there. LOL

Play it straight and it becomes simple.

[Renauda]

@George-K said in Build The Wall!:

In determining that these "barriers" need to be built, the Biden administration is waiving 25 or so environmental laws.

Why is the Biden administration hell-bent on ignoring established law?

From the outside it would seem that the Biden Administration now recognizes that there is broad Republican support for the construction and maintenance of a wall along the southern border and is willing to bypass unpopular leftist initiated environmental laws.

I should imagine that the Republican base ought to be applauding this courageous and bipartisan move by administration for the good of the country.

[Jolly]

The Resident, or more precisely his handlers, have determined the Border is an elective liability.

"Finger in the wind" has encompassed the whole of Biden's morals and political belief system.

[Renauda]

@Jolly

I see, the old guy’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t

[Jolly]

@Renauda said in Build The Wall!:

@Jolly

I see, the old guy’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t

Pretty much.

[Renauda]

Like the man with the donkey. Whenever the donkey carried him it was wrong and whenever he carried the donkey it was wrong.

[LuFins Dad]

@Renauda said in Build The Wall!:

@George-K said in Build The Wall!:

I should imagine that the Republican base ought to be applauding this courageous and bipartisan move by administration for the good of the country.

I imagine the Republican base is a little more pissed at being called racist for 6 years by the same people that are now racing to implement the same policies the Republican base was calling for.

[Renauda]

@LuFins-Dad

They can still applaud the fact that their opponents have now adopted and reframed their policies to the voting public so as to appear more inclusive and accepting of diversity at the southern border. Think of it as a win win and let bygones be bygones. Tomorrow’s a new day, rejoice!

[George K]

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-22176.pdf?utm_campaign=pi+subscription+mailing+list&utm_source=federalregister.gov&utm_medium=email

The word "illegal" appears 7 times.
The word "unlawful" appears once.

Unclear what the total length will be.

[George K]

Congressman Hank Johnson (D-TIppy Island?):

[George K]

Mark Levin says this is about ... 20 miles of wall.

Performance theater, nothing else.

[George K]

Less Than Meets the Eye

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the administration was going to waive dozens of federal laws, such as the Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Act, that prevent the government from building a wall at the Rio Grande, citing 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.”

This project inspired screaming headlines. But dig down a little deeper, and the joke becomes obvious. The Biden White House plans to build only 20 miles of wall.

The White House remains an enemy of good order at the border. The real record of the Biden White House is one of facilitating millions of illegal entries into the United States; 3.8 million have entered the U.S. since he took office. About half that number are completely off the radar.

The White House ended the suite of policies, including Remain in Mexico, that had stopped the flow of migrants to the border. The White House has released more than a million migrants into the country with nothing more than an order to appear at court to have their asylum status adjudicated in just the year that runs from last October 1 to this past September 30. This administration has extended temporary protected status to an unprecedented number of migrants and even now is giving completely novel five-year work permits to nearly three-quarters of a million Venezuelan migrants. There are over 1,454,000 known “gotaways” reported by the Border Patrol between the time Biden took office and April of this year. The number of known gotaways for 2023 is on pace to be over 1 million. There are 2.7 million backlog cases in our immigration courts, which are totally overwhelmed.

With this short bit of wall-building, the White House is proving only that it can read the recent polls. A survey from Marquette University showed that voters thought Donald Trump would handle border security better by a margin of 24 points, 52–28. These 20 miles of border wall are being built as a veil to drape over voters’ eyes ahead of an election year.

Twenty miles is less than 5 percent of the amount of wall that the Trump administration built during its time in office. And those 450 miles were not nearly enough of a deterrent on their own to stop the flow of migrants and drugs over the southern border. Nobody is going to be stopped or deterred from making an illegal journey into the United States by a small increment of additional wall, not when the Biden administration continues to abuse the law to facilitate millions of illegal entries, and not when he continues to give migrants more incentives — work permits, protection orders, or extended temporary status — that induce them to come and establish lives here in the legal gray zone the White House has created for them.