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In his first statement since resuming construction of the wall along the souther border, President Joe Biden said, “I’ll answer one question on the border wall.”
“The border wall where money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect that money,” Biden said. “They didn’t. They wouldn’t.”
“And in the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated. I can’t stop that,” Biden claimed. (Trending: Renown Doctor Obliterates COVID Vaccine)
When asked by a reporter if he believes a border wall works, Biden said “no.”
White House communications director Ben LaBolt posted on X, that the “funds for ~20 miles of border reinforcements were appropriated in 2019 before [Biden] took office.”
“He called on Congress to reappropriate the funds for smarter, more effective enforcement uses. Congress failed to do so,” LeBolt said. (Trending: Democrats Prioritize Illegals Over U.S. Military Veterans)
“Rule of law requires the project be completed in 2023,” he added.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said, “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].”
The administration has reported a significant level of unlawful border crossings in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, documenting more than 245,000 migrant encounters in this fiscal year alone.
The administration put a stop to border wall construction after Biden said there would “not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration.”
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