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| Confronted with a surge of migrants, the Biden administration has decided to waive more than 20 federal laws and regulations, including environmental ones, to build barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border. The move is a remarkable reversal for a president who campaigned vociferously against a wall and halted its construction on his first day in office. | Confronted with a surge of migrants, the Biden administration has decided to waive more than 20 federal laws and regulations, including environmental ones, to build barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border. The move is a remarkable reversal for a president who campaigned vociferously against a wall and halted its construction on his first day in office. |
| President Biden said today that he still believed that the border wall was ineffective, but he insisted that he had no choice but to use money that was already appropriated for the wall’s construction. The homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, argued that there was “an acute and immediate need” for the barriers “in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States.” | President Biden said today that he still believed that the border wall was ineffective, but he insisted that he had no choice but to use money that was already appropriated for the wall’s construction. The homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, argued that there was “an acute and immediate need” for the barriers “in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States.” |
| The move is one of the starkest signs yet of the challenges Biden is wrestling with, as humanitarian crises across the world drive more migrants to the border, and while a deeply divided Congress leaves in place an outdated, dysfunctional immigration system. | The move is one of the starkest signs yet of the challenges Biden is wrestling with, as humanitarian crises across the world drive more migrants to the border, and while a deeply divided Congress leaves in place an outdated, dysfunctional immigration system. |
| News that the wall would be expanded broke as three members of Biden’s cabinet were traveling to Mexico for meetings with the country’s leader on a host of issues, including migration and border security. Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, denounced the new construction, saying it stands “contrary” to what Biden had been arguing. | News that the wall would be expanded broke as three members of Biden’s cabinet were traveling to Mexico for meetings with the country’s leader on a host of issues, including migration and border security. Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, denounced the new construction, saying it stands “contrary” to what Biden had been arguing. |
| In related news, the Biden administration will start deporting Venezuelans who crossed into the country illegally. |