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The Biden administration will allow a short stretch of former President Donald Trump s border wall in southeastern Texas to be completed following a three-month freeze on all projects up and down the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, according to a report.
A 13.4-mile stretch of slatted border fence in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas will be completed, the Army Corps of Engineers told Fox News on Wednesday. The decision to continue wall construction was the result of pressure from local residents [and] politicians, reporter Bill Melugin wrote on Twitter. In support of CBP’s border infrastructure program, USACE has resumed DHS-funded design & construction support on approx. 13.4 miles of levee in the Rio Grande Valley that were partially excavated or at various levels of construction when work on the wall was paused for review, the Defense Department entity said in a statement. The Department of Homeland Security s Customs and Border Protection agency did not
Overcrowded Border Jails Give Way to Packed Migrant Child Shelters
Federal documents indicate that while the Biden administration has cleared migrant children from border detention centers, now shelters run by the Department of Health and Human Services are strained.
Children waiting for processing by Border Patrol agents on Thursday in La Joya, Texas.Credit.Adrees Latif/Reuters
May 7, 2021Updated 9:01 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON Biden administration officials have insisted that they have gotten better control of a surge of migrant children that has swamped detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
But documents obtained by The New York Times indicate that the problem has moved to other facilities, like convention centers in Dallas, San Diego and Long Beach, Calif., which are nearing capacity as funds for more space are scarce.
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The Pentagon canceled border wall projects that the Trump administration had funded with $10.5 billion it diverted from other federal departments on the basis that the southern border was experiencing a national emergency.
“Consistent with the President’s proclamation, the Department of Defense is proceeding with canceling all border barrier construction projects paid for with funds originally intended for other military missions and functions, such as schools for military children, overseas military construction projects in partner nations, and the National Guard and Reserve equipment account,” said Jamal Brown, deputy spokesman at the Pentagon.
Brown said the military has already started rescinding the funding and is working with other agencies involved in the construction, including its Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Homeland Security s Customs and Border Protection.
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