Biden Walking Back his Word and Changing Policies (AGAIN)
Biden to use Trump funding to continue the wall
By Chuck Warren and Kiley Kipper
For the second time in U.S. history, illegal immigrant apprehensions along the southern border surpassed 2 million in a fiscal year, with 3 months still left. The only other time this occurred? Last year (2022), also under Biden’s leadership. Despite Biden pledging “there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration” while campaigning for president, he has now done a complete 180° (again). Today, the Biden administration quietly reversed course and will use Trump funding while waiving two dozen federal laws to continue building 20 miles of border wall in the Rio Grande Valley.
So, the question arises… How many times does Biden have to walk back his word before we no longer trust his word?
Let’s start from the beginning. In November 2006, Biden touted his support for a bill that authorized the building of 700 miles of border wall and continued to say there is a need to jail Americans who hire illegal immigrants.
“Folks, I voted for a fence, I voted, unlike most Democrats – and some of you won’t like it – I voted for 700 miles of fence…”
“We’ve got to get tougher with employers. In fact, the person we should send to jail is not the illegals, we send to jail, the employers…”
“I know I’m not supposed to say it that bluntly, but they’re the facts, they’re the facts…”
If it’s the “facts”, then let’s ask ourselves why the 180° change? Halting the building of the border wall was one of Biden’s top campaign priorities. On Biden’s campaign website he wrote:
“Building a wall will do little to deter criminals and cartels seeking to exploit our borders.”
So ask yourself, was it because Trump was such a staunch supporter of the wall? In fact, one of Biden’s very first moves as president was to stop the use of emergency funds to build the wall and end the national emergency declared by Trump. On February 10, 2021, President Biden wrote a letter to Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, stating:
“I have determined that the declaration of a national emergency at our southern border was unwarranted. I have also announced that it shall be the policy of my Administration that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall”
A month later, Biden assigned Vice President Kamala Harris as the leader of the administration’s efforts to handle the migrant issues. Biden said he “can’t think of nobody who is better qualified to do this.” Between February 2021 and March 2021, illegal migrant apprehensions rose to 173,277 in one month vs. 101,099 the month prior. Despite taking the lead on this issue, Kamala has never made a visit to the border. Harris has repeatedly called the border wall a “vanity project.” In Kamala Harris’ 2020 kickoff for President, she stated:
“Folks, on the subject of transnational gangs, let's be perfectly clear: The president's medieval vanity project is not going to stop them.”
But did she have a viable plan to stop illegal immigration? What has she done to date?
In July 2021, the Biden Administration rolled out an 18-page “strategy for addressing the root causes” of the excess border crossings, still refusing to admit it was a crisis. One of two things is true about this “strategy”; it either didn’t work or it was a PR stunt to appear as though they are addressing the issue considering we are at more illegal apprehensions today than any time in history. And this doesn’t include the “got aways.”
Let’s not forget about the messaging from Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary. She, too, has been extremely outspoken about her feelings on a border wall. On January 12, 2018, Karine Jean-Pierre wrote an Opinion Editorial for NBC News titled The problem isn't just that Trump's a racist. It's that he keeps acting on his racism. In this she writes:
“Because just as Trump’s racism is intrinsic to who he is as a person, it too is embedded in his policy choices, from his attempts to implement a somewhat limited version of the Muslim ban he promised to his insistence on building a wall on the border with Mexico as part of any immigration reform.”
This is one of many examples of Biden and his administration saying one thing and doing another. In today’s press conference with Karine Jean-Pierre, she defended the Biden administration’s decision to continue building the wall stating:
"We are following the law here. It's as simple as that."
Then, Biden's Department of Homeland Security published a notice sharing they needed to waive a number of laws and regulations to construct the wall in Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorka stated:
"There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries…"
If all they say is true now, why were Trump’s border policies reversed? You have to ask yourself if Biden policies were written just despite President Trump.