It’s being reported tonight at DHS Secretary Mayorkas suddenly wants to build a border wall near the Rio Grande to stop the unending flow of illegals.
They want to build it in Starr County, the home of the infamous Rio Grande Valley Sector, where they say there’s “high illegal entry”.
Here’s more from Fox News:
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is citing an “acute and immediate need” to waive dozens of federal laws in order to build a border wall in south Texas where illegal migration has surged, a sharp contrast to dismissals of the use of such barriers in the early days of the administration.
The agency posted an announcement on the U.S. Federal Register which outlines construction in Starr County in the Rio Grande Valley Sector — where the administration says there is “high illegal entry.” The agency says there have been over 245,000 migrant encounters in the sector this fiscal year.
Mayorkas says he is using his authority provided by Congress to waive 26 federal laws, including the Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act and Endangered Species Act.
“There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas pursuant to sections 102(a) and 102(b) of [the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996],” Mayorkas said.
You know illegal crossings are extreme if this administration is finally wanting to build a wall. Geez. They must be breaking new records every day.
In related news, Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary Mayorkas were all meeting with officials in Mexico today to try and deal with the epidemic of human trafficking, fentanyl, and illegal immigration. Erick Adams was also supposed to fly down there today as well.
What’s absurd is that this problem isn’t new. Joe Biden has been breaking illegal immigration records since he stepped into the White House. So why try and fix it now? Because Biden is running for president and recent polling has shown the American people think he’s done a terrible job on immigration and the border. That’s what all this is about.