Biden to build more US border wall using Trump-era funds.

In carrying out a flagship program of outgoing President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden’s administration said on Thursday that it would add sections to a border wall to deter record migrant crossings from Mexico.

For the Republican Party candidacy to take against Democrat Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, Trump is the current front-runner. Trump’s rally slogan, “Build That Wall,” turned border barriers into a cornerstone of his first presidential run.

After assuming office in January 2021, one of Biden’s first acts was to make a proclamation promising that “no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall” and ordering a review of all funds already allocated.

The government said that Thursday’s decision did not depart from Biden’s declaration because funds given under Trump’s presidency in 2019 needed to be used immediately.

In a statement, Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, stated that there was “no new Administration policy concerning border fences. This administration has been clear that building a border wall has not been the solution since day one.

Mayorkas claimed that the previous administration had authorized the funding for the building project and that the law required the government to use it, notwithstanding an earlier declaration. “We have repeatedly asked Congress to rescind this money, but it has not done so, and we are compelled to follow the law,” he added.

But Trump was eager to declare victory and demand an explanation.

Wheels and walls are the only two things that have dependably worked over thousands of years, as I have frequently noted. On social media, Trump posted. Will Joe Biden apologize to the United States and me for taking so long to move?

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the president of Mexico, referred to the action as “a step backwards.”

A POLITICAL ISSUE IS IMMIGRATION
A majority of Americans – 54% – agree with the statement that “immigration is making life harder for native-born Americans,” according to a September Reuters/Ipsos survey, suggesting that immigration would likely be a campaign topic in the U.S. presidential contest.

According to a poll, 37% of Democrats and 73% of Republicans agreed with this statement.

The president will face criticism from his left-leaning constituency due to the Biden administration’s decision to proceed with the border walls, including opposition from environmentalists and immigration advocates.

Biden’s Department of Homeland Security stated in a document published in the Federal Register on Thursday that it required to waive various laws, rules, and other legal requirements to build barriers in Starr County, Texas.

According to Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, the county is located in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, where Border Patrol officers have met more than 245,000 immigrants trying to enter the country so far this fiscal year.

To stop unauthorized incursions, he declared, “There is currently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the United States border.”

Environmentalists expressed their dissatisfaction.

Bulldozers are getting ready to rip through some of the most beautiful and biologically significant habitats left in Texas, according to Laiken Jordahl, Southwest conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, which has opposed the wall.

In a statement, the White House claimed that it had adopted a new strategy to try to solve the “broken immigration system” that Biden “inherited,” which included expanding legal immigration routes and funding border security technologies.

CONTROL RECORD IMMIGRANT CROSSINGS
With fresh highs reached in September, the administration has been having operational and political difficulties due to the record-breaking number of migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border during Biden’s presidency.

Biden initially pledged to undo many of Trump’s immigration measures. Still, he maintained Title 42, a COVID-era public health regulation that permitted border officers to send people to Mexico without allowing them to request asylum.

The Biden administration replaced Title 42, which expired on May 11 of this year, with a stringent new regulation that mandates that immigrants schedule an appointment on a government-run smartphone app before approaching a legal port of entry or face a stiffer bar for asylum if they cross the border illegally.

After the new regulation was announced, the number of migrants initially fell, but in recent weeks, they started to rise again, partly due to the thousands of migrants leaving Venezuela.

Biden administration officials said they will resume deportation flights to Venezuela, delayed because of tense ties between the two nations, in another significant enforcement step announced Thursday.

In the past two years, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have made the difficult jungle trip through the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama to reach the U.S.-Mexico border, many of whom were escaping economic and political unrest back home.

The rise of migrants has stretched cities in the north and along the border of the United States. Asylum seekers may be allowed entry into the nation so they may present their cases in immigration court, where, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 2 million cases are outstanding and can take years to settle.

Some migrants have been bused into Democratically governed cities like New York and Chicago after being sent there by Republican governors close to the border who claim Biden is not doing enough to curb border crossings. Some Democratic officials in those areas are now also critical of Biden.

The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, set off on a tour to Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador on Thursday to inform prospective migrants that his city is at capacity and cannot take them in.

According to the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, around 11 million immigrants live in the country illegally. Many have spent years or decades residing and working in the nation.

Early in his term, Biden attempted to persuade Congress to adopt a comprehensive immigration reform measure, but Republican resistance stalled the process.