The Pentagon is confident that Congress will backfill the $3.6 billion for the 127 planned construction projects in 23 states, three U.S. territories and at bases in 20 other countries. Meanwhile, lawmakers in affected states largely expressed dismay at the decision.
ACLU, Sierra Club, SBCC demand Biden tear down all border walls
The emboldened communists want the entire wall torn down.
TEAR IT ALL DOWN
Dror Ladin, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s National Security Project, said in an ACLU press release, “It’s time for the Biden administration to step up for border communities, and commit to mitigating environmental damage and tearing down the wall.”
“We are relieved to see a pause on wall construction while the Biden administration decides whether to defend Trump’s illegal and disastrous national emergency declaration,
” said Gloria Smith, managing attorney at the Sierra Club. “Ultimately, the destructive border wall must be torn down. Constructing a wall has stripped environmental, cultural, and health protections from border communities bulldozed through Tribal sites and burial grounds and left irreversible scars on wildlife habitat and local towns. The new administration must implement a new vision for the borderla
Biden Lifts Emergency on U.S.-Mexico Border, Stops Wall
WASHINGTON, DC, February 11, 2021 (ENS) – A national emergency no longer exists at the U.S. southern border with Mexico; it has been terminated after nearly two years. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation that ends the national emergency first declared by former President Donald Trump on February 15, 2019, and twice renewed.
“I have determined that the declaration of a national emergency at our southern border was unwarranted,” President Biden wrote in a letter to Congressional leaders, explaining his move.
The Biden Administration’s policy is “that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall, and that I am directing a careful review of all resources appropriated or redirected to that end,” he wrote to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat representing California, a state on the southern border.