Biden Would End Border Wall Construction, But Wouldn't Tear Down Trump's Additions

NPR ^ | August 5, 2020 | Barbara Sprunt

[BeauBo]

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden says if elected, he would not tear down the parts of the barrier along the U.S. Southern border built during the Trump administration — but he would cease construction.

"There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration, No. 1," he told NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro during an interview...

"I'm going to make sure that we have border protection, but it's going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it. And at the ports of entry — that's where all the bad stuff is happening," the former vice president said during the virtual interview on Tuesday.

Biden committed to fully ending land confiscations...

"End. Stop. Done. Over. Not going to do it. Withdraw the lawsuits. We're out. We're not going to confiscate the land," Biden told Garcia-Navarro...

On China, Biden said he would reverse President Trump's tariffs...

When pressed on whether China would have to meet any conditions for reversing tariffs, Biden deflected...

Biden bristled when asked by CBS' Errol Barnett, a Black journalist, whether he had taken a cognitive test. "No, I haven't taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test?" Biden said. "Come on, Man. That's like saying you, before you got on this program, did you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not? What do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?"

[BeauBo]

Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier...

Come on, Man.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3871699/posts

[Gay State Conservative]

Hey,Plugs...we were born at night,but it wasn’t last night.We know that ICE is banned...by EO...on Day One of your Presidency.And that the wall comes down on Day Two.

[sheehan]

thanks Senile Joe - for drawing a clear contrast for voters between your demented ass and the President.

FINISH THE WALL.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier...
Come on, Man.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You said it all.

[RooRoobird20]

Plugs is a lying dog-faced soiled Depends LIAR!!!

He is on record saying that he would tear down everything that Trump built of the border wall.

Only he forgot he said that.

Obviously Plugs can’t remember anything that he’s said previously, even when the smirking black bald woman campaign manager gives him cards to read.

Plugs also can’t remember if his Depends go on his head or his @ss. LMAO LMAO

[the_Watchman]

People have identified Mexican gangs fighting over the areas where the wall is not yet constructed. The walls being built are displacing their crossing points and the gangs are fighting over the unwalled areas. But Joe says the bad stuff is happening at the ports of entry? Who is stupid enough to believe that?

[digger48]

“C’mon man”

Gee. Lunchbucket Joe talks just like one of us

(40 years ago)

[SaxxonWoods]

The Commie-Squad explodes in 3, 2, 1...

[Verginius Rufus]

He will just insist on having an unlocked gate every 100 yards or so in the wall.

[Right Wing Assault]

where all the bad stuff is happening

Bad stuff? What kind of democrat thinks anything bad happens at the border? Proof he is losing his mind. He should think borders are bad!

[5th MEB]

Even if he was good for his word; which I DOUBT, not finishing the wall is about as useful as using a colander for a bowl.

[Vendome]

He would end a border wall that many people have claimed only 7 miles have built?

 

Is this man insane?  If only 7 miles have been built then this is  a none issue

 

But hey:

 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/03/new-border-wall-us-mexico-imperil-jaguars-other-animals/

 

But while the nation is focused on fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration is working to expand the border wall through the region, cutting off critical animal migration corridors. The Department of Homeland Security this month paved the way to build more than 175 miles of new walls, much of it in remote, mountainous terrain.

 

 

Even as businesses have closed and workers told to stay home, wall construction continues, and review periods for environmentally sensitive projects, including oil leases on federal property, are not being postponed or extended.

Damnit!

 

and still more:

Randy Serraglio, a wild cat specialist and conservationist with the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit environmental group, says it’s “outrageous” that wall construction continues, as federal resources expended here could be better used to fight coronavirus. Besides the newly approved sections, more than 100 miles of wall are actively under construction elsewhere in Arizona, including in natural areas like Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

 

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol, granted the waivers earlier this month to build about 20 sections of wall in the two states, including more than 90 miles in Arizona, representing a quarter of its southern border

(Now why would the grant waivers for a fiction?)

 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/03/new-border-wall-us-mexico-imperil-jaguars-other-animals/

 

But while the nation is focused on fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration is working to expand the border wall through the region, cutting off critical animal migration corridors. The Department of Homeland Security this month paved the way to build more than 175 miles of new walls, much of it in remote, mountainous terrain.

 

 

Even as businesses have closed and workers told to stay home, wall construction continues, and review periods for environmentally sensitive projects, including oil leases on federal property, are not being postponed or extended.

Damnit!

 

and still more:

Randy Serraglio, a wild cat specialist and conservationist with the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit environmental group, says it’s “outrageous” that wall construction continues, as federal resources expended here could be better used to fight coronavirus. Besides the newly approved sections, more than 100 miles of wall are actively under construction elsewhere in Arizona, including in natural areas like Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

 

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol, granted the waivers earlier this month to build about 20 sections of wall in the two states, including more than 90 miles in Arizona, representing a quarter of its southern border

(Now why would the grant waivers for a fiction?)

 

[Vendome]

 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/03/new-border-wall-us-mexico-imperil-jaguars-other-animals/

 

But while the nation is focused on fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration is working to expand the border wall through the region, cutting off critical animal migration corridors. The Department of Homeland Security this month paved the way to build more than 175 miles of new walls, much of it in remote, mountainous terrain.

 

 

Even as businesses have closed and workers told to stay home, wall construction continues, and review periods for environmentally sensitive projects, including oil leases on federal property, are not being postponed or extended.

Damnit!

 

and still more:

Randy Serraglio, a wild cat specialist and conservationist with the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit environmental group, says it’s “outrageous” that wall construction continues, as federal resources expended here could be better used to fight coronavirus. Besides the newly approved sections, more than 100 miles of wall are actively under construction elsewhere in Arizona, including in natural areas like Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

 

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol, granted the waivers earlier this month to build about 20 sections of wall in the two states, including more than 90 miles in Arizona, representing a quarter of its southern border

(Now why would the grant waivers for a fiction?)

[Vendome]

Don't take the Givernments word for it but, behold the special interests who are up in arms over the wall, describe where and how long it will be in the areas they are litigating and their photo and arial evidence which shows where new wall has gone up and new trenching, where no wall or ballards, for completely brand new wall

Behold

To wit Indigenous peoples seem pretty hacked off about new wall going up https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/trump-s-border-wall-construction-threatens-sacred-lands-of-carrizo-camecrudo-0pfuFhxKRkuFJ3kzJgevVA 

Heavy equipment intended for the construction of a 25-mile section of the wall through South Texas arrived on Sunday and was being offloaded Monday along a levee bordering the Rio Grande River. In response, the tribe and its allies staged a march Monday from a location near the town of Mission to the National Butterfly Center, a 100-acre wildlife refuge that’s also being threatened by the immanent construction of the wall.

If you go to this page, kinda looks like there is a new wall going up and "The Intercept" is sure not on our side(Photos)

TRUMP IS BLOWING UP A NATIONAL MONUMENT IN ARIZONA TO MAKE WAY FOR THE BORDER WALL

https://theintercept.com/2020/02/06/border-wall-construction-organ-pipe/?comments=1

CONTRACTORS WORKING FOR the Trump administration are blowing apart a mountain on protected lands in southern Arizona to make way for the president’s border wall.

The blasting is happening on the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Don't forget to scroll through the article and look at: Magnified view of Monument Hill, in Organ Pipe National Monument, where border wall construction crews began using explosives this week WITH THE REALITIES of border wall expansion in southern Arizona coming into grim focus over the past few months, advocates on the ground have worried that construction on Organ Pipe might involve explosives.(But no new construction happening) The entire episode is deeply political, Grijalva said, with the Trump administration clearly bent on completing as many new miles of wall construction as possible ahead of the 2020 election. “What’s particularly frightening right now is that Trump has weaponized DHS, politically weaponized them,” Grijalva explained. “And so right now, it’s about satisfying that political agenda.”

From National Geographic:

Border wall construction expands, despite pandemic, imperiling jaguars and other animals

With the world focused on coronavirus, the federal government paves way for 175 miles of new walls along U.S.-Mexico border, through prime wildlife corridors. They are opposed to 175 of New walls?(Need an account to read but, whatever. The headline speaks volumes)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/03/new-border-wall-us-mexico-imperil-jaguars-other-animals/

I guess their chief complaint is that a vehicle barrier is being replaced or augmented with a 30 foot bollard wall. That is new fencing to me, as it reduces the ability to cross the border

This guy really hates the wall:

New Drone Footage Shows Damage From Trump’s Wall in Remote Arizona Wildlands Construction Rips Through Wildlife Refuge Along Historic Devil’s Highway author: Laiken Jordahl

The wall is being built through the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, home to the endangered Sonoran pronghorn, and the rugged Tinajas Altas Mountains in the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range east of Yuma, Arizona. The 30-foot-tall, bollard-style barriers will block wildlife migration, damage ecosystems, and destroy natural history and Native American sacred sites.

“Trump is bulldozing the borderlands’ most beautiful, rugged landscapes for nothing but a twisted campaign promise,” said Laiken Jordahl, a borderlands campaigner at the Center. “Walling off these protected wildlands will kill wildlife, obliterate sacred sites and rip a hideous scar through the heart of the world’s most biodiverse desert.

We’ll continue to fight Trump’s despicable border wall every step of the way, and we won’t stop until it’s torn down.”

Looks very much like Green Construction if you scroll through Jordan's page https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/new-drone-footage-shows-damage-from-trumps-wall-in-remote-arizona-wildlands-2020-04-28/

He does a real nice job documenting on a drone the fence being built here: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/resourcespace/pages/search.php?search=%21collection1202&k=92ef6f7763

Anyway, looks like mile after mile after hundreds of miles are being built

[Vendome]

Look at that.

 

It just goes on forever

 

[Vendome]

and ever

 

[frank ballenger]

And on day three the Times Square at New Years Eve look at all border crossing points will show that regular citizen taxpayers will have to be cut off Medicare and other benefits.

All money will have to be sent to the “humanitarian crisis” of millions of freeloading gimmedat aliens demanding benefits. United Nations will rule it has to be done and paid for by the US.

[frank ballenger]

Are these ready for Deplorable post cards? Send them to all our friends.

[Vendome]

The hilarious part is there are hundreds of these photo’s provided by Tribes, Kommies, Anti-Americans, Ecology groups, etc as evidence America is tearing up the country side.

Literally no one who doesn’t hate Republicans or Trump provides more than ample evidence which is further bolstered by more and more contracts being awarded to contractors to build “X” amount of miles in this area or that area....

Conveniently they take work porn photos before, during and upon completion of their work.

But still, only 7 miles have been built..../s