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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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: border; invasion; irony; wall
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1 posted on 10/05/2023 7:47:25 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 10/05/2023 7:47:39 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: bitt

Create a problem and then pretend to solve it. All in the communists handbook.


3 posted on 10/05/2023 7:50:51 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (#PureBlood)
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To: bitt

The democrats must think they have enough illegal votes to win in 2024 now....


4 posted on 10/05/2023 7:51:03 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: bitt

Election time pandering- nothing more


5 posted on 10/05/2023 7:51:13 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: bitt

What the heck?

Liberals have lectured us that we need to build bridges, not walls.

Liberals have said that it is offensive and racist and xenophobic, to build walls.

Now the liberal view, is that we should have border walls and barriers???? When did the liberal view change??

Is it ok to build walls, as long as a good Democrat president is in office? But the same action is racist and bigoted and all that, if an evil Republican is president? What the heck is going on here?


6 posted on 10/05/2023 7:51:34 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (.)
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To: bitt

Wow.

Too bad Biden tossed all that fence material that we paid for!!


7 posted on 10/05/2023 7:51:39 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: bitt

Watch, that moppet he has for a Press Secretary will claim Biden came up with this idea....................


8 posted on 10/05/2023 7:51:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: bitt

So, they tore down what there was of Trump’s wall. Did everything they could to bring in millions of illegals - and we’re supposed to think they are sincere on this?


9 posted on 10/05/2023 7:52:21 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: bitt

They looked at internal polling for the old senile bstd and it must have been bad news.


10 posted on 10/05/2023 7:53:01 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Bob434

If the left want to stop the crap, build the entire wall, deport 10’s of millions here illegally, I will be happy to give them credit for doing so, BUT i am more than certain that i will never have to congratulate them for doing so because they are not serious about protecting our country from illegals!


11 posted on 10/05/2023 7:53:48 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: bitt
“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.

Didn't he just recently tell Congress under oath that the border was secure?

12 posted on 10/05/2023 7:53:51 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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The (lack of a) wall isn’t the problem. The problem is that we let in nearly everyone that shows up at our border crossings. For the few we won’t let in (criminal backgrounds, usually), the wall helps...but still the wall doesn’t stop the Globalist Population Replacement Plan, only orders from DC can do that.


13 posted on 10/05/2023 7:54:14 AM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: bitt

Who do we, the taxpayer seek remedy from for the waste, fraud, and abuse, that are the holy trinity of this administration and the Beltway?


14 posted on 10/05/2023 7:54:33 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Anybody seen the liberals bashing the wall idea on TV? Twitter? CNN, MSNBC? Anywhere?


15 posted on 10/05/2023 7:54:58 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: bitt

Biden’s handlers don’t want a wall. So there won’t be any wall, except maybe for a short stretch that will be featured on the nightly news.

But, hey. Talk of the wall just might settle the rubes down, at least until the next fixed election is over.


16 posted on 10/05/2023 7:55:43 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

[[Liberals have said that it is offensive and racist and xenophobic]]

Yep and when migrants were bussed to Martha’s Vinyard, the left showed what hypocrites they are by immediately kicking the Mexican illegals out of their precious town which they didn’t want sullied by Mexicans.


17 posted on 10/05/2023 7:56:19 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: bitt

Just back in August: “The Biden government is selling off $300 million worth of materials intended for Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall for just $2 million in an effort to stop it being used to deter illegal migrant crossings.”
I think it is a safe bet to assume that potato head cronies bought the wall material. And when bids go out for the new wall, these cronies will be able to unbid everybody because they got the materials essentially free. That’s how bidennomics works. I remember when Trump was trying to build the wall, all the environmental wackos and liberals would fight it in court and slow down the building of the wall. And now potato head is going to waive 26 federal laws? Where is the outrage from the left? Crickets!!


18 posted on 10/05/2023 7:56:24 AM PDT by Bruce Kurtz
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Now, Biden, you worthless misuse of space, clean out the 7,000,000 illegal criminals and drug carriers you’ve allowed to enter this nation to be dispersed to make capture difficult. President Eisenhower proved it’s not an impossible task.

Too bad Jo Jo won’t be around to read what history has to say about his evil time spent destroying America. Perhaps your worthless adulteress wife can read your legacy.

It must be admitted that your accomplishments in destruction are herculean and without challenge. For what you’ve done there is a special place for you in hell.

Viva Cristo Rey! Viva Donald Trump!


19 posted on 10/05/2023 7:56:33 AM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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To: bitt

This would not be happening without pressure on the White House from Democrats in New York and Chicago - and that is a direct result of Abbott and DeSantis busing illegals to Democrat enclaves. Making the illegals a problem for Democrats was a master-stroke, and something both Abbott and DeSantis deserve a lot of credit for.


20 posted on 10/05/2023 7:59:32 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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