All border wall construction to be stopped Tuesday night

[mystery-ak]

All border wall construction to be stopped Tuesday night
by Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security Reporter |
 | January 26, 2021 09:14 AM



Construction workers on the U.S.-Mexico border were notified to stop all border wall projects by the end of Tuesday, according to a congressman whose district sits on the international boundary.

Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, said in a statement issued late Monday that federal contractors working with U.S. Customs and Border Protection were formally notified by the agency to stop installing the 18- to 30-foot-tall portion of slatted steel wall across California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

“I received notification that in accordance with President Biden’s executive order, all CBP contractors have now been formally notified by CBP Procurement to pause construction activities on CBP self-executed projects," Cueller said. "While CBP cannot speak on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense or U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), it is expected that DOD and USACE are undertaking parallel action on CBP-funded border wall projects that they are overseeing,”

The Trump administration obtained more than $15 billion in funding for roughly 750 miles of border wall, much of it replacing dilapidated fencing. Of the funding, $10 billion was taken from Treasury and Defense Department funding on the basis that building a wall constituted a national emergency, enabling former President Donald Trump to divert money appropriated to other projects.

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[Elderberry]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-termination-of-emergency-with-respect-to-southern-border-of-united-states-and-redirection-of-funds-diverted-to-border-wall-construction/

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Like every nation, the United States has a right and a duty to secure its borders and protect its people against threats.  But building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution.  It is a waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland security.  My Administration is committed to ensuring that the United States has a comprehensive and humane immigration system that operates consistently with our Nation’s values.  In furtherance of that commitment, I have determined that the declaration of a national emergency at our southern border in Proclamation 9844 of February 15, 2019 (Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States), was unwarranted.  It shall be the policy of my Administration that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall.  I am also directing a careful review of all resources appropriated or redirected to construct a southern border wall. 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), hereby declare that the national emergency declared by Proclamation 9844, and continued on February 13, 2020 (85 Fed. Reg. 8715), and January 15, 2021, is terminated and that the authorities invoked in that proclamation will no longer be used to construct a wall at the southern border.  I hereby further direct as follows:

Section 1.  Pause in Construction and Obligation of Funds.  (a)  The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall direct the appropriate officials within their respective departments to:

(i)    pause work on each construction project on the southern border wall, to the extent permitted by law, as soon as possible but in no case later than seven days from the date of this proclamation, to permit:

(A)  assessment of the legality of the funding and contracting methods used to construct the wall;

(B)  assessment of the administrative and contractual consequences of ceasing each wall construction project; and

(C)  completion and implementation of the plan developed in accordance with section 2 of this proclamation;

(ii)   pause immediately the obligation of funds related to construction of the southern border wall, to the extent permitted by law; and

(iii)  compile detailed information on all southern border wall construction contracts, the completion status of each wall construction project, and the funds used for wall construction since February 15, 2019, including directly appropriated funds and funds drawn from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund (31 U.S.C. 9705(g)(4)(B)), the Department of Defense Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities account (10 U.S.C. 284), and the Department of Defense Military Construction account (pursuant to the emergency authorities in 10 U.S.C. 2808(a) and 33 U.S.C. 2293(a)).

(b)  The pause directed in subsection (a)(i) of this section shall apply to wall projects funded by redirected funds as well as wall projects funded by direct appropriations.  The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security may make an exception to the pause, however, for urgent measures needed to avert immediate physical dangers or where an exception is required to ensure that funds appropriated by the Congress fulfill their intended purpose.

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[jafo2010]

Let us all unite under the globalist cabal!

We are all just one slave state, that state being the global state.  What are they planning to call it, the Global Union, World Union?
 

[Elderberry]

The Fight for the Future of the Borderlands

Bloomberg By Tanvi Misra January 21, 2021

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-01-21/what-will-become-of-donald-trump-s-border-wall

Under a Biden administration, what will become of Trump’s partially constructed border wall — and the communities and ecosystems that live around it?

What will become of a border wall that’s already been partially built? What does it take to reverse the damage to communities and ecosystems along the U.S.-Mexico border? And what does the future of the borderlands look like?
The logistics of stopping wall construction

On the day of his inauguration, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation that "no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a wall." An immigration overhaul bill Biden also intends to introduce would authorize funding for beefing up technology and infrastructure at the ports of entry, through which most illicit drugs are smuggled. 

As for funding that has already been allocated to the wall, Biden's proclamation paused the work on all construction projects while officials develop a plan to redirect that money.

As a rule, government contracts — including the ones for wall construction — contain clauses that allow for a complete or partial termination, said Grace M. Geiger, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. But contractors are entitled to settlement payments for the money they have already spent on costs like workers and materials, and for the expenses of withdrawing from the project. Geiger did not comment on how expensive that might become, but one estimate from the Army Corps reviewed by the Washington Post found that the cost savings would far outweigh those expenses: Stopping work on the Army Corps wall construction contracts on day one may save the Biden administration $2.6 billion.

And what happens to the other funding earmarked for wall construction? Congress has allocated $1.375 billion for a “border barrier system” in 2021, but the language in the legislation allows that money to be redirected towards other border security efforts, according to the American Civil Liberties Union’s David Donatti.

Biden also terminated the national emergency that allowed Trump to transfer additional funds from military accounts toward wall construction. Donatti says that would open the door for that money to flow back to its original account or be allocated for another purpose.

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[Elderberry]

Biden has stopped construction on Trump's border wall, but the fate of outstanding contracts is unclear

Yahoo by Peter Weber January 22, 2021

https://news.yahoo.com/biden-stopped-construction-trumps-border-060359881.html

Biden gave the Pentagon and Homeland Security departments up to a week to stop all border construction, and for the most part, the frantic wall-building Trump had unleashed in his last months in office had stopped by Thursday, The Associated Press reports. The Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday it told its contractors to stop installing any additional barriers and do only what's "necessary to safely prepare each site for a suspension of work."

Biden gave his administration 60 days to find and review all current contracts and determine which can be canceled, which must be renegotiated, and whether any of the remaining money can be used on other projects. Trump, as of Jan. 15, had spent $6.1 billion of the $10.8 billion in wall construction it had contracted out, a Senate Democratic aide told AP. Overall, the Trump administration had secured $16.45 billion for the wall, including $5.8 billion appropriated by Congress and the rest seized from the Treasury and Defense departments. Biden is targeting that latter pot of money.

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[skeeter]

Biden has stopped construction on Trump's border wall, but the fate of outstanding contracts is unclear

Yahoo by Peter Weber January 22, 2021

https://news.yahoo.com/biden-stopped-construction-trumps-border-060359881.html

The rats will be able to buy more than a few races with that extra ten billion.

[jafo2010]

Hey, 'what's a few million more refugees?'  Basically that is what Traitor Joe said to a citizen asking about the influx of illegal invading aliens.

I think we need to displace a few million more NON ESSENTIALS, don't you?  How else will we get to become part of the Global Union?  Come'on man!