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U.S. to use border wall funds to close gaps and clean up Trump-era construction sites
www.cbsnews.com
21 Dec 2021 ~~ By CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday it will use border security funding allocated by Congress to close wall gaps and pay for environmental and clean-up projects in areas of Arizona, California and Texas affected by barrier construction undertaken by the Trump administration.
The projects authorized by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas include installing drainage to prevent flooding, mitigating soil erosion, completing roads used by Border Patrol agents, demobilizing construction and equipment storage sites and discarding unused materials.
Mayorkas also authorized U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to erect barriers to close "small" gaps along some wall sections that were left open when construction was brought to a halt in January, saying the measures are necessary to mitigate safety concerns.
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The new construction and clean-up projects will take place in areas of the U.S.-Mexico border where the Army Corps of Engineers had been tasked to help build former President Donald Trump's wall. The corps is terminating wall construction contracts so DHS can assume control of the unfinished construction sites.
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During a November hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn asked Mayorkas to explain "why a wall is effective and necessary at the White House and the Biden beach house but is not necessary at the southern border."
Mayorkas said the "key" to ensure border security is advanced surveillance technology, citing the "tremendous expanse" of the nearly 2,000 mile-long U.S.-Mexico border.
"We're not going to construct a border wall on the ragged and jagged cliffs in certain parts of the border," Mayorkas added.
Commentary:
Hmm...., Leave it to Baghdad Bob Mayorkas to answer the obvious and do exactly the opposite.
In the last 11 months under the leadership of the Biden administration more than one million illegal aliens have come across Southern border unchecked and disbursed to cities throughout America.
This occurrence happening in the middle of the Wuhan Covid-19 pandemic.
Not only have American citizens died from the virus but we've also seen large numbers of Americans between the ages of 18 to 45 dying from drugs smuggled across the borders, mainly Fentanyl manufactured in China shipped to Mexico and brought across our now open border.
Today it been approximated that over four hundred thousand 'Get-Aways' have also entered America.
WE have recently apprehended 13 Illegals wearing Marine Corps uniforms and in one case wearing a jacket with a backward American flag patch on one sleeve. USCBP One sleeve had a patch that reads “Central Oneida County Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
It turns out the guy wearing the EMT jackets is a Saudi Arabian man described by a Border Patrol official as a “potential terrorist" with ties to Yemen.
See:
www.cbsnews.com
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The Governor of Texas is now building extensions to the gaps in the wall and is willing to buy the steel barriers abandoned and left to rust by the Joey Xi Bai Dung administration. The request has fallen on deaf ears in Washington D.C.
U.S. to use border wall funds to close gaps and clean up Trump-era construction sites
The Biden administration will also use the money to complete roads used by Border Patrol and install drainage designed to prevent flooding.
www.cbsnews.com
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday it will use border security funding allocated by Congress to close wall gaps and pay for environmental and clean-up projects in areas of Arizona, California and Texas affected by barrier construction undertaken by the Trump administration.
The projects authorized by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas include installing drainage to prevent flooding, mitigating soil erosion, completing roads used by Border Patrol agents, demobilizing construction and equipment storage sites and discarding unused materials.
Mayorkas also authorized U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to erect barriers to close "small" gaps along some wall sections that were left open when construction was brought to a halt in January, saying the measures are necessary to mitigate safety concerns.
~Snip~
The new construction and clean-up projects will take place in areas of the U.S.-Mexico border where the Army Corps of Engineers had been tasked to help build former President Donald Trump's wall. The corps is terminating wall construction contracts so DHS can assume control of the unfinished construction sites.
~Snip~
During a November hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn asked Mayorkas to explain "why a wall is effective and necessary at the White House and the Biden beach house but is not necessary at the southern border."
Mayorkas said the "key" to ensure border security is advanced surveillance technology, citing the "tremendous expanse" of the nearly 2,000 mile-long U.S.-Mexico border.
"We're not going to construct a border wall on the ragged and jagged cliffs in certain parts of the border," Mayorkas added.
Commentary:
Hmm...., Leave it to Baghdad Bob Mayorkas to answer the obvious and do exactly the opposite.
In the last 11 months under the leadership of the Biden administration more than one million illegal aliens have come across Southern border unchecked and disbursed to cities throughout America.
This occurrence happening in the middle of the Wuhan Covid-19 pandemic.
Not only have American citizens died from the virus but we've also seen large numbers of Americans between the ages of 18 to 45 dying from drugs smuggled across the borders, mainly Fentanyl manufactured in China shipped to Mexico and brought across our now open border.
Today it been approximated that over four hundred thousand 'Get-Aways' have also entered America.
WE have recently apprehended 13 Illegals wearing Marine Corps uniforms and in one case wearing a jacket with a backward American flag patch on one sleeve. USCBP One sleeve had a patch that reads “Central Oneida County Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
It turns out the guy wearing the EMT jackets is a Saudi Arabian man described by a Border Patrol official as a “potential terrorist" with ties to Yemen.
See:
Illegal immigrants in Marine uniforms arrested
2 U.S. citizens who were with the 13 immigrants were arrested on suspicion of alien smuggling, says spokesman
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‘Potential terrorist’ who crossed border in Oneida ambulance corps jacket nabbed - United News Post
A Saudi Arabian man described by a Border Patrol official as a “potential terrorist” was arrested in Arizona last week after illegally crossing into the
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