Biden Inherited Solution, Created a Crisis at Border, Lawmakers Say By Abigail Robertson for Faith Wire
Former President Trump is visiting the border today to see what some are calling President Biden’s big border blunder. Critics say Biden inherited a solution and canceled it, creating a crisis. Now one million migrants are expected to surge into the U.S. this year alone.
While the Trump administration built about 450 miles of new barriers along the southern border, Biden immediately halted construction when took office, leaving gaps that rendered most of the border wall incomplete. Meanwhile, border states are dealing with an unprecedented surge of people coming across, leading many Republican lawmakers to call for the wall to be finished.
“The money to finish wall construction is already there, it’s just that President Biden decided he didn’t want to do it anymore,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) told CBN News on a recent trip with a congressional delegation to McAllen, Texas. “Border patrol is essentially a medical triage unit right now.”
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On their tour, they learned that where the wall is complete only one agent is needed for patrol compared to five or six. Yet even where the structure looks finished, construction stopped before power lines were put in, leaving the already installed camera and light systems powerless.
“When you come down here and you see the infrastructure for yourself, you go into the detention facilities run by border patrol, you see what’s happening on the ground, it just makes sense to finish wall construction and bring back some of the enforcement measures that we had in the previous administration,” continued Donalds.
The group also participated in intelligence briefings, spoke with agents and local residents, toured detention facilities, and visited areas where people are coming across.
“We’re actually on pace to add about a million different illegal aliens to the already 10 million that are here in the United States this year alone,” claimed Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council.
