Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that it will use remaining border wall funds to close unfinished gaps in Trump’s wall.
As previously reported by Human Events News, Biden halted all construction on the wall upon entering office, leaving sections of the wall incomplete and materials sitting idle on the border.
The plan does not include construction of additional miles of the wall, but would close “small gaps that remain open from prior construction activities and remediating incomplete gates,” per Fox News.
The Department said the move is part of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ plan to use funds to “protect border communities from physical dangers resulting from the previous administration’s approach to border wall construction.”
Funds will also be used on drainage systems to prevent erosion, to complete unfinished access roads and to dispose of construction materials that are already at the border but won’t be used.
The construction will happen in the Tucson, Yuma and El Paso sections, which stretch from California to Texas.
“I’m pleased to see that they are finally taking some actions to secure our border,” Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rob Portman said Monday. “Now is not the time to incentivize unlawful migration or the influx of deadly fentanyl by continuing their failed policies.”
“I call on the Biden administration to install the technology Border Patrol needs to complete their mission, close all the gaps in the border wall, and to implement policies to curb the influx of unlawful migrants and illicit narcotics,” he continued.
