Laredoans celebrate Biden's pause on border wall construction, but their work isn't over Jan. 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A man looks through the first wall at Friendship Park, near where the border separating Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego meets the Pacific Ocean Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico.Gregory Bull /Associated Press On President Joe Biden’s first day in office Wednesday, he signed an executive order that terminates the national emergency at the southern border and pauses all construction work on the border wall, beginning no later than a week from its signing. This marks a huge step toward the primary goal of Laredo’s No Border Wall Coalition, which aimed to hold Biden to his campaign promise that “not another foot” of the border wall would be built under his administration.