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Biden administration reverses course, clears way for new border wall by waiving environmental laws
nypost ^ | 10/5/2023 | allie griffin

Posted on 10/05/2023 7:47:25 AM PDT by bitt

The Biden administration has paved the way for the construction of a new wall along the southern border in Texas by waiving more than a dozen federal laws in a stark reversal of its previous stance on the physical barrier.

The Department of Homeland Security announced the plan to bypass long drawn-out environmental reviews in order to expedite border wall construction in Starr County, TX as the administration struggles to handle an ongoing migrant crisis that has strained local and federal resources.

The area where construction is planned has seen “high illegal entry,” according to authorities.

“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, said in a notice posted on the US Federal Registry.

The Democratic administration is picking up where former President Donald Trump left off.

One of Trump’s biggest campaign promises was to build a wall along the US-Mexico border and his administration constructed about 450 miles of border barriers between 2017 and January 2021.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: border; invasion; irony; wall
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To: bitt

See we told you. Bye-done will turn on border crossers. No one is safe here. Don’t vote for back-stabbers. They promise good things, only if it empowers them.


41 posted on 10/05/2023 8:28:11 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (MURDER IS MYRDER)
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To: bitt

The mayors probably threatened they wouldn’t put the fraud machines in their cities to work for Biden unless he did something.


42 posted on 10/05/2023 8:37:17 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: bitt

so, the border is NOT secure...got it.


43 posted on 10/05/2023 8:43:08 AM PDT by stylin19a (If people gripped a knife & fork as poorly as they do a golf club, they'd starve to death- Sam Snead)
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To: bitt

Give this retarded loser six months and he’ll be campaigning for president wearing a MAGA hat.


44 posted on 10/05/2023 8:43:46 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: bitt


45 posted on 10/05/2023 8:53:56 AM PDT by Iron Munro (<blockquote> <p> Sun Tzu: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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To: bitt
Says a LOT about the environmental B.S. Agenda...they only file lawsuits when a business/conservative/common folks effort is to be blocked in friendly courts.
46 posted on 10/05/2023 8:55:55 AM PDT by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: bitt

“The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.”

Gustave Le Bon


47 posted on 10/05/2023 9:08:10 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: bitt

Just another Bugsy Biden snow job.

Why bother the damage is done why not massive deporting if you want to do something useful.


48 posted on 10/05/2023 9:18:14 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: bitt

Didn’t they recently sell the remaining wall components for pennies on the dollar? This administration has perfected the art of wasting money.


49 posted on 10/05/2023 9:28:55 AM PDT by beekay (Missing Trump yet? )
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To: Leaning Right

Talk of the wall

Is all I beleive

till I see it,

it’s JUST talk.

If some is built there will probably be an environmental wildlife passage tunnel under it.


50 posted on 10/05/2023 9:37:17 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: beekay

pennies on the dollar?

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And who ever bought it will sell it back at an astronomical price.

Grift with a capital G.


51 posted on 10/05/2023 9:39:00 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: bitt

the other day, when biteme suggested he’d found a unique way to fund Ukraine, my suspicion was that it would involve the border wall. “We’ll fund the wall, but that funding must include zeeperfunding”. It’s only fair, the might say, that UK have a method to keep out the Russians, might be the logic used. I now suspect this is the groundwork for just such a plan, however, watch how he later hamstrings the wall through other nefarious tricks.

We’ll see if this comes true


52 posted on 10/05/2023 9:55:21 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: bitt

Of course not a single angstrom of wall will be built but still Biden will proclaim he is the real border security president as he shuffles his way to a second term.


53 posted on 10/05/2023 10:35:17 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The liberals are flying them in from their own countries. They don’t even have to walk in anymore


54 posted on 10/05/2023 10:36:43 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: bitt
Let's not forget that everything that President Trump did to build the wall was done within the framework of the law. Everything that Biden is doing now to build the wall is by unconstitutional diktat.

The Democrats knew that President Trump was within his emergency power to use the laws to divert funding to build the wall, but they took him to court anyway to delay his progress. The Supreme Court ultimately sided with Trump, but the Democrats succeeded in delaying the wall.

Now we see the fruits of their labors when the LAAP-dog media keeps reporting that "Trump only built 49 miles of border wall."

Biden, on the other hand, isn't even attempting to justify using existing laws; he's waiving existing laws by edict and expecting everyone to just let him do it.

Biden is effectively "canceling" Congress by unilaterally declaring duly passed laws as no longer in effect instead of working with Congress to repeal those laws. And yet, it was President Trump whom the LAAP-dog media called a dictator.

-PJ

55 posted on 10/05/2023 10:45:40 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: fireman15

What is the nypost article that this photo comes from?


56 posted on 10/05/2023 10:57:16 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
What is the nypost article that this photo comes from?

It was found on Google images... but this appears to be the article that it came from. https://nypost.com/2023/08/24/border-gates-in-arizona-remain-open-letting-in-thousands/

57 posted on 10/05/2023 11:18:11 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: bitt

as they did for trump, will the dems vote against funding the wall?


58 posted on 10/05/2023 11:54:05 AM PDT by coalminersson
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To: bitt

This announcement is just for the election season. No wall will be built. Remember that Biden has been selling the stacks of supplies.


59 posted on 10/05/2023 12:25:56 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I have a feeling at least half of the political disagreements is not based on ideology but based on tribalism.

I’m sure a lot of the pro-face mask people would have called it fascism had Trump ordered a face mask mandate.


60 posted on 10/05/2023 1:52:44 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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