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Biden says he had to use Trump-era funds for the border wall. Asked if barriers work, he says ‘No’
Associated Press ^ | October 6, 2023 | Colleen Long

Posted on 10/06/2023 2:27:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai

President Joe Biden on Thursday defended his administration’s decision to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow for construction of roughly 20 miles of additional border wall, saying he had no choice but to use the Trump-era funding for the barrier to stop illegal migration from Mexico.

Asked if he thought such walls work, he said flatly, “No.”

The new construction was announced in June, but the funds were appropriated in 2019 before the Democratic president took office.

Biden said he tried to get lawmakers to redirect the money but Congress refused, and the law requires the funding to be used as approved and the construction to be completed in 2023.

“The money was appropriated for the border wall,” Biden said. “I can’t stop that.” […]

The decision comes as the Biden administration is struggling to manage increasing numbers of migrants at the border and spreading out in the larger U.S. Democratic leaders in New York, Chicago and Washington are asking for federal help to handle the growing numbers of migrants in their cities. Administration officials on Thursday announced they’d resume deporting migrants back to Venezuela, as part of their effort to to slow arrivals. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; biden; border; borderwall; buildthewall; dementiajoe; fakenews; globalistpropaganda; headfake; illegals; impeachment; invasion; lyinbiden; tds; trump; trumpswall; wall
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To: Olog-hai

If barriers don’t work, take down the one around the white house!


21 posted on 10/06/2023 5:12:13 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: existentially_kuffer

Took 3 years to say he has no choice... everyone on the left are compete and utter idiots.


22 posted on 10/06/2023 5:14:48 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Olog-hai

I guess he folks in Berlin would disagree


23 posted on 10/06/2023 5:17:28 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Olog-hai

Didn’t Biden’s people sell or get rid of all the border fences stored from Trump days


24 posted on 10/06/2023 5:19:49 AM PDT by elpadre (rattle snakes)
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To: Olog-hai

BTTT


25 posted on 10/06/2023 5:22:52 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Olog-hai

Barriers only work when they are covered by M-60 machine guns. We’ve got border patrollers down there cutting the concertina wire for the illegals and then they fist bump with them.


26 posted on 10/06/2023 5:29:33 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Prosecutors say Trump may have broken the law admiring gun in South Carolina" ROTFLMAO!)
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To: Olog-hai

Chief kick-the-dog is a buffoon


27 posted on 10/06/2023 5:31:45 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Olog-hai

its all a head fake

just a talking point for the election

even if they build anything

it will have a gate

welded open


28 posted on 10/06/2023 5:32:41 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Olog-hai

Why the change of heart? Last week Mark Levin laid out what the first article of President Biden’s impeachment should be - his failure to uphold Article 2 section 3 of the Constitution. Biden is compelled to comply with statutes and laws he may disagree with and he’s violated the law by blowing off the wall at the southern border. They moved quickly now because they are nervous. There really is no change in the Biden administration policy. What they are not telling you is that they will spend that money on building a few miles of wall, the least amount possible, because not doing so is an impeachable offense.


29 posted on 10/06/2023 5:35:00 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: know.your.why

check joe’s pants


30 posted on 10/06/2023 5:35:40 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Olog-hai

Biden is pretending to do something to pacify the Black City State leaders who are losing money taking care of illegals invading their space

The wall effort is but another example of existential Kissing Black Ass


31 posted on 10/06/2023 5:36:34 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: Olog-hai

The devil made him do it.


32 posted on 10/06/2023 5:40:21 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Enterprise

For building fences around their mansions.


33 posted on 10/06/2023 5:49:45 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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To: Olog-hai

Yet on everything else he say he has ‘ways to get around things’, and here, he assertively removed the barriers to the build.

What a coward.


34 posted on 10/06/2023 6:19:52 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Olog-hai

Let me see if I got this straight....

He’s building the wall because it’s the law and he has no choice but to follow the law. But to enforce that law he’s “waiving” (breaking) 26 other laws in the process.

I’m confused.


35 posted on 10/06/2023 6:27:28 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Enterprise

I had the same thought.


36 posted on 10/06/2023 6:37:36 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Olog-hai

“The money was appropriated for the border wall,” Biden said. “I can’t stop that.” […]

I’ll be interested to see the analysis on his comment, but I feel like this subject, and others, have reached their limit and biden is trying to do it, (wall building) and not do it at the same time to both mollify his base and turn his pathetic poll numbers around.


37 posted on 10/06/2023 6:45:40 AM PDT by bluescape
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To: Olog-hai

Bugsy Biden invasion not going as planed socialists getting mugged homes invaded murdered by released convicts and mental ill taking it’s toll.


38 posted on 10/06/2023 8:27:22 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Olog-hai

“the Biden administration is struggling to manage increasing numbers of migrants”

Whatta laff! The increasing number is entirely their plan. They fund it, they encourage it, they are NOT going to actually try to stop it.


39 posted on 10/06/2023 8:37:52 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: existentially_kuffer

Are there walls at Biden’s Delaware house?

I know he wanted a HUGE sum to put up a wall at his beach house-—and he wanted the Feds to pay for it,.


40 posted on 10/06/2023 11:36:22 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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