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Sputnik International
Rep. Madison Cawthorn has proposed a fresh alternative for the unfinished U.S.-Mexico border wall championed by former President Donald Trump: turn it into a national monument.
The wall was a key piece in Trump s election campaign in 2016. Cawthorn, a first-term Republican from North Carolina, is honoring Trump with the proposed bill, the Donument Act. For four years President Trump worked to secure the southern border of the United States by constructing a wall in places where there was little to no fencing, Cawthorn said in an April 13 statement on the proposed legislation, H.R. 2390. The Donument Act establishes the southern border wall as the Southern Border Wall National Monument, and gives the monument permanent protection from alteration.
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MISSION, Texas Anyone paying attention to the news knows the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border is terrible. Anyone who actually visits the border discovers it is worse than that.
Here is what is most striking about the government s response to the unprecedented surge of illegal border crossers: It is entirely improvised. Jury-rigged. Thrown together in a scramble to accommodate thousands of migrants who were not coming just months ago. And the reason it is being improvised is that during his first days in office, President Joe Biden blew up the foundation of the government s handling of migrants. With a series of executive actions, Biden threw out key policies