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The U.S. government does not want to build new sections of wall on its border with Mexico, Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday, expressing doubt that the planned construction would be carried out. "It's pure publicity," Lopez Obrador said in a regular morning press conference, after the Biden administration announced it would build additional sections of border wall, carrying forward a signature policy of the Trump administration. A high-ranking delegation of U.S. officials met Thursday with their Mexican counterparts, among them Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

“The United States has a right and a duty to secure its borders and protect its people against threats,” President Joe Biden said in a proclamation the day he was inaugurated in 2021. “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.” Fast forward two and a half years, and the Biden administration is now waiving 26 federal regulations to resume construction of Donald Trump’s border...

President Biden is defending his decision to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas in order to speed construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Biden’s move to advance a central policy of former President Trump’s platform has prompted condemnation from immigrant rights, environmental and Indigenous activists. At the White House Thursday, a reporter asked Biden why he reversed his campaign pledge that “There will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration.” President Joe Biden: “I’ll answer one question on the border wall. The border wall — the...

The Biden administration has been selling off materials that were supposed to be used to construct barriers at the border with Mexico just days before it approved the construction of a new, 20-mile stretch of border wall. Listings on GovPlanet, an auction site for state, local and federal agencies to auction off surplus inventory, show it has been selling off lots of square iron and steel wall tubing for tens of thousands of dollars as recently as Wednesday. On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security approved the construction of the...

For the first time under President Joe Biden, officials are using authority established under former President Donald Trump to waive dozens of laws in order to continue construction on the racist southern border wall, sparking outrage from activists. The Biden administration is bypassing 26 laws, including crucial environmental, public health and cultural preservation laws, in order to continue building the barrier along the border in southern Texas.

PROGRAMMING NOTE: We’re off Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day but will be back in your inboxes Tuesday. Enjoy the long weekend! MIGRANT MOVES: Officials with the Department of Homeland Security have been visiting Chicago to assess the migrant situation. And the White House made two big announcements that could impact what’s happening on the ground in Chicago, where asylum seekers have sought refuge. Double-take: The Biden administration says it to allow the construction of the border wall that former President Donald Trump started putting up in Texas. Yes, you read...

(The Daily Signal) — The Biden administration is defending its plan to construct 17 miles of border wall in South Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced in the U.S. Federal Register that a wall in Starr County, Texas, will be constructed to “deter illegal crossings in areas of ‘high illegal entry’ into the United States.” President Joe Biden’s Department 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...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday denounced the Biden Administration’s move to allow more construction of the Mexican border wall, calling it “cruel.” “A wall does nothing to deter people who are fleeing poverty and violence from coming to the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement she shared on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Walls only serve to push migrants into more remote areas, increasing their chances of death. It is a cruel policy.” The progressive lawmaker also took issue with President Joe Biden’s claim that the funds for...

President Biden’s decision to resume building the border wall he was so strongly against is being ripped by his own party — with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanding he “reverse the course” and stop his “cruel policy.” The New York Democrat fired off a statement Thursday taking the Biden Administration to task for waiving 26 federal laws to speed up the construction of new sections of the border wall in Texas in a bid to keep migrants out. “The Biden administration was not required to expand construction of the border wall...