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 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.

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"The Secretary of Homeland Security has determined, pursuant to law, 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," DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas wrote in the notice.

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 the government's fiscal 2023 year, Border Patrol apprehended more than 245,000 people who illegally entered the country through this one area.

"Therefore, DHS will take immediate action to construct barriers and roads," Mayorkas wrote.

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.

Starr County, where wall is slated to go up in, is home to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX).

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The projects will be paid for with money that Congress appropriated during the Trump administration in 2019 for border barrier projects in the region.

Mayorkas added that the DHS was required to use that 2019 funding for projects in that region.