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Biden Administration: Okay, Maybe We’ll Spend Some Money on Fixing Border Fencing

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When Vice President Kamala Harris said, “we have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration,” maybe what she meant was that the Biden administration was quietly taking steps that the previous administration had wholeheartedly embraced, like filling in gaps in border fencing:

 U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed that work on the border wall that began under Trump is revving back up under Biden. In an online presentation Wednesday, CBP — the largest division of the Department of Homeland Security and home to the Border Patrol — detailed plans to address environmental damage brought on by the former president’s signature campaign promise and confirmed that the wall will remain a permanent fixture of the Southwest for generations to come.

The resumed operations will range from repairing gates and roads to filling gaps in the wall that were left following the pause on construction that Biden initiated in January 2021. The wall’s environmental harms have been particularly acute in southern Arizona, where CBP used explosives to blast through large swaths of protected land — including sacred Native American burial grounds and one-of-a-kind wildlife habitats — in service of Trump’s most expansive border wall extensions….


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