WASHINGTON: US president Joe Biden on Thursday defended plans to extend the border wall with Mexico, saying he didn’t think such barriers worked but t...
An aerial image shows migrants waiting along the border wall to surrender to US Customs and Border Protection border patrol agents for immigration and asylum claim processing after crossing the Rio Grande River into the United States, on the US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on May 11, 2023. AFPPIX: US president Joe Biden on Thursday defended plans to extend the border wall with Mexico, saying he didn’t think such barriers worked but that he was bound by laws introduced under Donald Trump.
Biden, who is polling neck-and-neck with rival Trump ahead of a likely 2024 election rematch, insisted his predecessor had tied his hands on the wall-building. But homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas later said the announcement had been “taken out of context.” Meanwhile, some Democrats including progressive lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticised the wall decision. So did conservationists after it emerged that two dozen federal environmental laws would be waived to build the extension.“We have to comply by law and that’s what we’re doing,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said the Biden administration move showed “I was right when I built 560 miles...
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