Anna Giaritelli joined the Washington Examiner in 2015 and focuses on homeland security, immigration, and border issues. Anna has traveled to the border on more than 40 occasions since 2018 and has covered human smuggling, the evolution of the war on drugs, domestic terrorism, and migration trends. She is currently based in Austin, Texas.
The Biden administration has quietly walked back on President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign promise that"there will not be another foot of wall constructed" along the U.S.-Mexico border with new plans to waive two dozen federal laws in order to swiftly erect a barrier in a part of Texas.
The Department of Homeland Security dropped a notice in the Federal Register Thursday that disclosed its plans to take up 10 projects to install tall slatted barriers and roads in parts of the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.
Mayorkas described the Rio Grande Valley, where roughly 3,000 Border Patrol agents work, as a"high illegal entry" area. In the first 10 months of fiscal 2023, Border Patrol apprehended more than 245,000 people who illegally entered the country through this one area.The move is a huge setback for the Biden administration and will upset Democrats who challenged the need for a physical barrier along the 2,000-mile southern border.
The projects will be paid for with money that Congress appropriated during the Trump administration in 2019 for border barrier projects in the region.
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