President Biden has formally rescinded his predecessor Donald Trump’s February 2019 declaration of emergency US border with Mexico. The end of the exception ensures that the funds allocated for the construction of a boundary wall are frozen. But the Pentagon said about 3,600 soldiers stationed in the area would remain there.
“I have determined that the declaration of a national emergency on our southern border is unreasonable,” Biden defended in a letter. Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Speaker of the Democratic Majority in the House of Representatives, and Vice President during her tenure as Speaker of the Senate. “I declare that it will be the policy of this administration that US taxpayers’ dollars will not be diverted to build the border wall,” the president added.
Full Proclamation Executive order signed by Biden at the White House on his first day, In it he questioned the validity of the national emergency declaration and ordered a halt to the construction of the wall. During his first weeks at the White House, the president devoted himself to decriminalizing, by order, some The most controversial policies of its predecessors.
According to Pentagon sources, troops were stationed on the ground Politics, Will continue to provide support to the Department of Homeland Security and border agents. The work of these soldiers, according to the same sources, is not related to the construction of the wall.
One of the hallmarks of this is the heavy arm with the settlement The Trump administration, Who came to power with the star promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico. The emergency declaration ordered by Trump opened the door to divert money to a controversial project budgeted for other companies after a tussle with Congress over funding for the wall.
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