White House to fill gaps in Trump’s border wall after Biden pledged not to build...

[diamenz]

White House to fill gaps in Trump’s border wall after Biden pledged not to build any more.

this should make for some interesting and entertaining responses all around.


The White House is completing more sections of former President Donald Trump’s border wall, with the Department of Homeland Security closing four gaps in the barrier near Yuma, Ariz., that have become a major migrant thoroughfare.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas authorized Customs and Border Protection Thursday to seal the openings near the Morelos Dam just west of downtown Yuma.

The department said the area “presents safety and life hazard risks for migrants attempting to cross into the United States where there is a risk of drownings and injuries from falls. This area also poses a life and safety risk to first responders and agents responding to incidents in this area.”

The dam sits in a section of the border that runs north-south along the Colorado River before turning on an east-west track at the California-Arizona state line.

Border officials have reported 235,230 migrant encounters in the Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector since Oct. 1 of last year. Only the Del Rio (326,177) and Rio Grande Valley (377,194) sectors have reported more encounters in the same period.

President Biden ordered a halt to border wall construction shortly after taking office in January 2021. While the move was praised by liberal activists, it also left holes in the barrier that critics — including Biden’s fellow Democrats — say have been exploited by individual migrants and human traffickers smuggling groups of people across the border.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly insisted Friday that the Biden administration isn’t “finishing” the border wall, which Trump declared a national emergency in 2019 to build before later winning congressional appropriations for the project.

“Why is the Biden administration building a border wall in Arizona?” Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre at her regular briefing.

“We’re not finishing the wall,” Jean-Pierre answered. “We are cleaning up the mess the prior administration left behind in their failed attempt to build a wall.”

“But President Biden, when he was a candidate, said, ‘There will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration,'” insisted Doocy, referencing a statement by the Democrat in August 2020. “So what changed?”

“We are not finishing the wall,” Jean-Pierre repeated.

Doocy went on, “If walls work in that part of Arizona, is this the administration trying to get migrants to cross somewhere else, like in Texas? What is the point?”

Jean-Pierre again replied, “We are not finishing the wall. We are cleaning up the mess that the prior administration made. We are trying to save lives. This is what the prior administration left behind that we are now cleaning up.”

“By finishing the wall, is this —” Doocy continued.

“We are not finishing the wall,” Jean-Pierre interrupted.

“By filling in, finishing —” Doocy said.

“We are not finishing the wall,” Jean-Pierre again interjected.

“By filling in [the wall], is this racist?” Doocy asked cheekily. “Because in 2019, when the former guy [Trump] was proposing a wall, you said that it was his racist wall. So how is this any different?”

“I’m not even sure how you get [from] your first question to this question that you just asked me,” Jean-Pierre said. “A border wall is an ineffective use of taxpayer dollars … Just recently, CBP reported that new bollard fencing along the Southwest border was breached 3,272 times between fiscal year 2019 and 2021, requiring $2.6 million in repairs. It’s ineffective. We are not finishing the wall. We are cleaning up the mess that the last administration made.”

A day earlier, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) praised DHS for filling in the openings.

“For too long, the Morelos Dam area has been an operational challenge for Border Patrol agents to properly secure the border and keep our communities safe,” Kelly said in a statement.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/biden-administration-to-fill-gaps-in-arizona-border-wall/

[RRR3]

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it-George Carlin

[FultzNationRISE]

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it-George Carlin


Makes it all the more ironic youre always sucking their ***** by getting vaxed, staying woke, and over reacting to their global warming doomsday predictions. And of course consuming all their corporate products and entertainment.

Everything the wealthy WANT you to do, is exactly what you do. You are a willing SLAVE to billionaires. All your actions say loud and clear: "I'm a chump."

But then you put some pins on your jacket and tell everyone youre an anarchist in the hopes of looking edgy and enlightened :roll:

Your face is every billionaire's personal toilet :roll:

[Off the Court]

Mexico City residents angered by influx of Americans speaking English, gentrifying area (https://nypost.com/2022/07/28/mexico-city-residents-angered-by-influx-of-americans-speaking-english-gentrifying-area-report/)

Ironically Mexico City now has a huge issue of American immigrants flooding in and gentrifying the city. :lol

You can live in a Penthouse there for a fraction of what it costs to live in California. Americans can work their US job remotely while living the wealthy life in Mexico.

[theman93]

How racist and xenophic of the Biden administration towards that Latinx community.

[Off the Court]

“By filling in [the wall], is this racist?” Doocy asked cheekily. “Because in 2019, when the former guy [Trump] was proposing a wall, you said that it was his racist wall. So how is this any different?”

“I’m not even sure how you get [from] your first question to this question that you just asked me,” Jean-Pierre said. “A border wall is an ineffective use of taxpayer dollars … Just recently, CBP reported that new bollard fencing along the Southwest border was breached 3,272 times between fiscal year 2019 and 2021, requiring $2.6 million in repairs. It’s ineffective. We are not finishing the wall. We are cleaning up the mess that the last administration made.”

If this is the truth? The wall just makes immigration even more expensive for the US than previously?

:facepalm

Entire project is just one big catastrophe. And all the other side is worried about is being called "racist".

[Patrick Chewing]

Massive L by the Democrats here. They chastise and label Trump and his followers racist by wanting a wall at the Southern border, only to then themselves continue to build a wall.


That always seems to be the constant with Democrats/Liberals. The hypocrisy. They accuse the opposition of the very same thing they do, but because the mainstream media backs them, they are never held to account.

Now, as they see the influx of people coming over and the influx of migrants dying in loaded containers as they bake in the sun right here on American soil, now they want to do something about it. But of course, if Trump was President, the only reason Trump wants to build a wall is to keep the dirty Mexicans out.

[BigKobeFan]

Trump was right again.

[TheMan]

Mexico City residents angered by influx of Americans speaking English, gentrifying area (https://nypost.com/2022/07/28/mexico-city-residents-angered-by-influx-of-americans-speaking-english-gentrifying-area-report/)

Ironically Mexico City now has a huge issue of American immigrants flooding in and gentrifying the city. :lol

You can live in a Penthouse there for a fraction of what it costs to live in California. Americans can work their US job remotely while living the wealthy life in Mexico.

Why you hating on how I make my living, bro?

[bladefd]

This wasn't the wall Trump had in mind. He wanted a long brick/concrete wall, but he settled for some other material.

It was never about racism (to me anyways) but always about the cost & maintenance requirements. I was never for open borders. I always supported a double-layered 15ft fence while using automated drones & sensors & lasers (technology) for the blind spots like river border. Technology is the smart & cost-effective way to go.

[jstern]

https://youtu.be/Qocfyj4fX24

Go to 3:21 of the embedded video.

Good points from the video. The Biden Administration is cleaning up the mess of bricks that Trump left. Identity politics. Karine Jean-Pierre pretends not to understand the question. Instead of getting lied to by a white male Press Secretary, you're getting lied to by a black, immigrant, gay, female. Karine Jean-Pierre fills 4 slots. And that should make the woke ISH members proud of the Biden Administration. (If only they could get a black, gay, female, immigrant, but who was somehow born in Ukraine.) By filling in this wall, the Biden Administration is not racist, though they felt that the wall was racist when being constructed under Trump. Joe Biden said it's only racist when Trump does it, but not when he does it.

[diamenz]

https://youtu.be/Qocfyj4fX24

Go to 3:21 of the embedded video.

Good points from the video. The Biden Administration is cleaning up the mess of bricks that Trump left. Identity politics. Karine Jean-Pierre pretends not to understand the question. Instead of getting lied to by a white male Press Secretary, you're getting lied to by a black, immigrant, gay, female. Karine Jean-Pierre fills 4 slots. And that should make the woke ISH members proud of the Biden Administration. (If only they could get a black, gay, female, immigrant, but who was somehow born in Ukraine.) By filling in this wall, the Biden Administration is not racist, though they felt that the wall was racist when being constructed under Trump. Joe Biden said it's only racist when Trump does it, but not when he does it.

^nice embed.

[Off the Court]

Racist people are always the best at embeding.

[RRR3]

Makes it all the more ironic youre always sucking their ***** by getting vaxed, staying woke, and over reacting to their global warming doomsday predictions. And of course consuming all their corporate products and entertainment.

Everything the wealthy WANT you to do, is exactly what you do. You are a willing SLAVE to billionaires. All your actions say loud and clear: "I'm a chump."

But then you put some pins on your jacket and tell everyone youre an anarchist in the hopes of looking edgy and enlightened :roll:

Your face is every billionaire's personal toilet :roll:
1. I generally listen to what my doctor says about health because I'm not a complete idiot.
2. What you call staying woke is just me having respect for minority groups.
3. I generally listen to what scientists say about their fields of expertise because y know, it's what they do for a living.
4. Am I supposed to feel bad for enjoying food, movies and music lol?

[jstern]

^nice embed.

Thank you.


Racist people are always the best at embeding.

I don't know much about Jasper's history, but he seems to be known as a racist by many here on ISH (RacistJasper). Yet he doesn't know how to embed YouTube videos.

[Patrick Chewing]

Not knowing how to embed videos is really frustrating.

[paksat]

So they're finishing a wall they deemed racist while calling it ineffective and expensive... Cool

[paksat]

Yahoo has an article today I'd encourage the sane people here to read. The comments speak for themselves for such a liberal website. 95 percent of it is literally, "fck Biden and Democrats."

Gov Abbotts idea to ship them to DC is apparently working way better than even he could have imagined. Mid terms are looking like a blow out if the tide stays the same. Not one word in like 6000 comments defending demoRAT policies or claiming racism.

[Jasper]

Massive L by the Democrats here. They chastise and label Trump and his followers racist by wanting a wall at the Southern border, only to then themselves continue to build a wall.


That always seems to be the constant with Democrats/Liberals. The hypocrisy. They accuse the opposition of the very same thing they do, but because the mainstream media backs them, they are never held to account.

Now, as they see the influx of people coming over and the influx of migrants dying in loaded containers as they bake in the sun right here on American soil, now they want to do something about it. But of course, if Trump was President, the only reason Trump wants to build a wall is to keep the dirty Mexicans out.

like I said before : if you build a wall , build it the WHOLE length of the border , NOT 800 miles short of it.
This is 100% a total failure on Trump as well as the USA government.

If Trump would of done it , he would of made good history not Nazi history.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BiCeibP6I-k

[KNOW1EDGE]

So they're finishing a wall they deemed racist while calling it ineffective and expensive... Cool

I’d like to quickly interject and say they aren’t finishing the wall but rather cleaning up the mess made by the previous regime. Aka they are finishing the wall

[jstern]

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[paksat]

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demoRATS gag and repeat

[SATAN]

pakRAT still melting down. :roll:

[Off the Court]

The most important facet about the border wall is definitely that someone called someone else a racist.

[Nanners]

If this is the truth? The wall just makes immigration even more expensive for the US than previously?

:facepalm

Entire project is just one big catastrophe. And all the other side is worried about is being called "racist".

$2.6 million over 3 years is a laughably small sum... thats like $860k/year, which is basically a rounding error for the feds.

Last year the US spent $15.3 billion on border patrol and another $8.1 billion on ICE. Trumps wall was supposed to cost $10b total (about $20m per mile), so this means their repair costs are equivalent to the cost of building 1/20th of a mile (~264 feet) worth of wall each year.

[Long Duck Dong]

White House tweets photo of Biden next to Trump's racist wall :lol

https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-5.33.17-AM-640x480.png

https://mobile.twitter.com/POTUS/status/1612276561658404864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5 Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1612276561658404864%7Ctwgr% 5E09060d4a66310cbaa7b52789d98bc6481fb96530%7Ctwcon %5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics %2F2023%2F01%2F09%2Fbiden-chooses-wall-for-photo-of-first-border-visit-after-ending-trumps-project%2F

[Jasper]

Its sad that all of us can't agree on something.

I stated way before Trump came up with the idea a wall would be beneficial to encourage correct emigration ... I also stated that if Trump put up a wall it must be a wall that runs the LENGTH OF THE BORDER.

thousands of lives are at stake , and the revenue of making the wall would literally help both countries economies.

The millionaires and billionaires of our government can't agree on how to run our country / their objective is 'HOW they can make money '

[Long Duck Dong]

Its sad that all of us can't agree on something.

I stated way before Trump came up with the idea a wall would be beneficial to encourage correct emigration ... I also stated that if Trump put up a wall it must be a wall that runs the LENGTH OF THE BORDER.

thousands of lives are at stake , and the revenue of making the wall would literally help both countries economies.

The millionaires and billionaires of our government can't agree on how to run our country / their objective is 'HOW they can make money '



I'd say it's too late but it's actually getting worse. The population of Ireland (500k-1m more actually) illegally crossed the border before Biden's second term even ended.

Better brush up on your Spanish old man, the US as you know it is going to change big time in next 10 years. I can speak and understand it so I'm good.

[Patrick Chewing]

I'd say it's too late but it's actually getting worse. The population of Ireland (500k-1m more actually) illegally crossed the border before Biden's second term even ended.

Better brush up on your Spanish old man, the US as you know it is going to change big time in next 10 years. I can speak and understand it so I'm good.

Jasper barely speaks or understands English either.

[ZenMaster]

I'd say it's too late but it's actually getting worse. The population of Ireland (500k-1m more actually) illegally crossed the border before Biden's second term even ended.

Better brush up on your Spanish old man, the US as you know it is going to change big time in next 10 years. I can speak and understand it so I'm good.

It's a tactic by Democrat party. Look away and not give the right tools for two years and have a bunch of new voters come over. Then take a trip to the border and tighten up a little bit so a it'll appear in two years as them doing better.
Then at election, they'll be able to say that they are working on it and show a graph that illegal border crossing is actually trending down.

Smart tactic too.

[Off the Court]

White House tweets photo of Biden next to Trump's racist wall :lol

https://media.breitbart.com/media/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-5.33.17-AM-640x480.png

https://mobile.twitter.com/POTUS/status/1612276561658404864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5 Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1612276561658404864%7Ctwgr% 5E09060d4a66310cbaa7b52789d98bc6481fb96530%7Ctwcon %5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics %2F2023%2F01%2F09%2Fbiden-chooses-wall-for-photo-of-first-border-visit-after-ending-trumps-project%2F

Is that officer in the process of explaining to Biden that ladders exist?

[Jasper]

I'd say it's too late but it's actually getting worse. The population of Ireland (500k-1m more actually) illegally crossed the border before Biden's second term even ended.

Better brush up on your Spanish old man, the US as you know it is going to change big time in next 10 years. I can speak and understand it so I'm good.
that would mean your safe from poopsie invasions

[Jasper]

Is that officer in the process of explaining to Biden that ladders exist?

tunnels are a thing of the past. Drugs to jewelry clerks don't exist.

[Long Duck Dong]

Is that officer in the process of explaining to Biden that ladders exist?

I can't find the link but I remember seeing that only a fraction of 1% of crossings are by going over the border wall. That right there should tell you it's effectiveness. These new walls are much higher too so they are even more effective up to the point where ER staff are complaining in some border cities having to treat illegals who have fallen 20-30 feet.