Posted on 10/04/2023 9:32:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
More days than not, the Biden administration leaves you shaking your head in exasperation as they deliver one terrible decision after another. On Wednesday, however, they actually announced a good decision—let's build a wall to help solve the disastrous, self-created border crisis.
A wall! What a great idea. Too bad nobody ever thought of that before. Or maybe someone once did...?
Here's the newest plan, as announced by Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas:
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.
BREAKING: The Biden administration says there is an “immediate need” to wave regulations and build a border wall as the migrant crisis spirals out of control.
Remarkable. 4 years ago this was “racist.” Now they’re advocating for it.
"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 pursuant to sections 102(a) and 102(b) of [the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996]," Mayorkas said in an announcement.Gee, maybe they shouldn’t have sold all the border wall parts. pic.twitter.com/OREJNUkWcl— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 5, 2023
Not only is it ironic that Biden is building a wall after putting an end to former President Donald Trump's efforts to put one up, but he's waiving 26 environmental laws—including the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act—to do so. This is the same man who continually lectures us about environmental issues and climate change.
Mayorkas warned the situation has grown dire:
"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,” Mr. Mayorkas said in an official filing in the Federal Register. “In order to ensure the expeditious construction of the barriers and roads in the project areas, I have determined that it is necessary that I exercise the authority that is vested in me by section 102(c) of IIRIRA."
Note that the "acute and immediate need" is happening under his and Joe Biden's watch. In fact, the president has seemingly welcomed the unprecedented surge in illegal immigrants and paved the way for the human tsunami with decisions like this:
BIDEN (2020): "There will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration!"
Today, Biden's DHS secretary declared an "immediate need" to build 20+ miles of border wall in Texas. pic.twitter.com/QvB1aC30C1— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 4, 2023
The administration had put a halt to new border wall construction in early 2021, after then-candidate Biden had promised there would be "not another foot of wall constructed during my administration." The administration said that wall construction under the Trump administration was "just one example of the prior Administration’s misplaced priorities and failure to manage migration in a safe, orderly, and humane way."
Anyone who has been paying attention knows that there's nothing "safe, orderly, and humane" happening on the Rio Grande.
See: Skyrocketing Number of Deaths Shows Human Cost of Biden's Border Policies—'It's Like a Graveyard'
You knew Donald Trump would have something to say about this apparent embarrassing about-face by Biden and Co., and he didn't disappoint:
"President Trump is always right," the Trump campaign said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "That’s why he built close to 500 miles of powerful new wall on the border and it would have been finished by now. Instead, Crooked Joe Biden turned our country into one giant sanctuary for dangerous criminal aliens."
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) needed only two words to sum up the situation:
Impeach Mayorkas. https://t.co/7vbaWZU9Ov— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 4, 2023
I can’t wait for the Bee’s take on this.
It would have been built by now, if it weren’t for Democrats.
When blue…sanctuary cities like Denver, New York and more and woke leftists started complaining about illegal migrants…you knew this was the likely outcome. They were fine with it as long as those folks stayed in Texas and Florida. But now that they are burying Democrat hell holes under the massive financial and criminal burden, even true blue lefties cannot take any more. We need to thank DeSantis and Abbott for the hundred of bus and plane full of these folks going to blue cities. It has moved the needle. Plus, we cannot downplay the bad campaign issue this is for Biden and any Democrat. They have to do this to slow the bleeding of voters sick and tired of this. Even leftists.
I guess they must have made enough money selling the materials for the wall that they can now afford to build a wall.
This is the problem with the brain dead Voter base. Does not matter that “their team” screamed “racism racism racism” for years about the Wall. Now that “their team” is the one building it watch them all scream about what a “brilliant move” it is
Democrat voters are the stupidest people on earth. “Their team” can tell them a lie today, tell them a lie that directly contraindicates todays lie tomorrow, and they will all be repeating the new lie tomorrow as if today’s lie never existed,.
Yeah sure
And the first segment will be in front of the whitehouse and then surrounding all of the district of corruption before it makes it’s way towards Texas.
These jackA$$€$ can’t come up with a solution for anything !!! About like hollyweird trying to make a NEW movie, all they can do is make a sequel to chucky the 23rd returns.
It will get outsourced to the chicoms.
I’d bet they could find a few million illegal alien Mexicans who would be willing to build it.
and all the fencing he SOLD for pennies on the dollar???
Round em up, load em up and ship em out to New Youk City. Maybe then we will see more action to close the borders. Send them in droves to conneticut, massachusetts, chicago, atlanta and dump em as fast as possible. If it were done I would contribute all I could. Make the bleeding hearts squirm, sweat fume and suffer!!!!!
I looked to see if this was the Bee.
Hard to tell the difference between The Bee and Not the Bee nowadays.
I suppose the “commission checks”, payable to the big guy, are being held in escrow already.
2019 - Walls Don’t Work
When his plans for a southern barrier have become dust and blown away, he will continue as long as he is in office to induce Americans to build walls of the mind.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/03/walls-dont-work/
They think people are stupid enough to forget by election month, and they are right.
They are not stupid...
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 #BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has just signed a bill BANNING hand-counting ballots in most elections
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7:26 PM · Oct 4, 2023
Where is the Babylon Bee headline, when you need it.
Slow Joe Flip Flop.
Money quote. “A wall! What a great idea. Too bad nobody ever thought of that before. Or maybe someone once did...? “
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