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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Amid a surge of migrants crossing into the country, the administration is moving forward with construction of 18-foot tall steel fencing along about 17 miles of land near the Rio Grande in south Texas, according to a notice published in the Federal Register on Thursday.
The notice describes the area as one where Border Patrol agents have seen high numbers of people crossing between ports of entry.
The notice cites powers given to the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive environmental laws and other restrictions to speed up the construction of barriers and roads along the U.S. border.
The Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector in Southeast Texas is considered an area of “high illegal entry,” the notice states, and Border Patrol agents encountered more than 245,000 people trying to enter the US between ports of entry in that area during the 10 months leading up to early August.
“It shall be the policy of my Administration that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall,” Biden wrote in the Federal Register on Jan. 20, 2021.
On Thursday, Biden ended that pause, using money Congress allocated in 2019 to build high barriers along a section of the Rio Grande in Starr County, Texas, that winds south from the Falcon Dam to McAllen.
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Can’t wait for y’all to defend this.
That’s a weird way to spell “I didn’t read the article and don’t know what it says”.
Seriously though, I thought you were kidding then I read the article. Title should have read, Biden has been blocked in reallocation of boarder wall funds.
Imagine believing Biden actually has no choice.
In the Oval Office on Thursday, Biden made clear that he was moving forward with wall construction grudgingly, in order to comply with funds appropriated by Congress in 2019. He said he had tried and failed to get Congress to redirect the funding it had allocated for wall construction in south Texas. “The money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect that money. They didn’t. They wouldn’t. In the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated for. I can’t stop that,” he said.
No defense necessary - his hands are tied and breaking the rules to achieve your own agenda is what fascists do. This is just a lingering bit of rot from the Trump admins, frankly I’m surprised that conservative media isn’t framing this more as a victory for Trump
Yes, the norms matter more to Biden than the human rights of migrants or keeping his campaign promises. Glad we agree.
We’re not talking about “norms”, we’re talking about “law”. And it’s always important to remember the whatever powers you give this president, you have to give the next. What happens if Biden breaks the law for his own goals, even if those goals are noble, and then Trump is elected in?
A politician who breaks laws on their own whim is a tyrant, full stop. And even a noble tyrant doesn’t help anyone in the long run.
No, we’re talking about norms. Laws that don’t have enforcement mechanisms are polite suggestions. Biden, like a good liberal, obeys the rules of the playground.
What happens if Biden breaks the law for his own goals, even if those goals are noble, and then Trump is elected in?
Nothing stops Trump from just breaking those laws anyway! In fact, he spent his term doing exactly what you’re talking about. Your theory about how laws actually function is extremely flawed. We’re rapidly heading to an election where half the country will vote for a convicted criminal, we are so far past the point you’re making that it comes across as a joke.
Well, with a disregard for law and accountability like that, I’m glad you’re never going to be elected to an office lol
Biden’s Border Wall good because Biden.
Trump’s Border Wall bad because Trump.
