Joe Biden pledged 'not another foot' of border wall. Now he's building it
by Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent
October 05, 2023 10:08 AM
JOE BIDEN PLEDGED 'NOT ANOTHER FOOT' OF BORDER WALL. NOW HE'S BUILDING IT. It's rare for what is known in the federal bureaucracy as a "notice of determination" to make news. But this week, the Department of Homeland Security issued what might be called a quiet bombshell with such a notice. "The Secretary of Homeland Security has determined," it announced, "that it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads in the vicinity of the international land border in Starr County Texas."
The short version of that is: President Joe Biden is going to build more of former President Donald Trump's border wall. It is a complete reversal of Biden's campaign promises in 2020. It is also, after three disastrous years of mass border incursions by illegal crossers, a step down from the moral high horse Biden has ridden on this for three years.
Go back to 2020. In August of that year, running against Trump, Biden vowed: "There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration. I'm going to make sure that we have border protection, but it's going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it. And at the ports of entry — that's where all the bad stuff is happening."
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