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2023-10-05 Government Corruption
DHS Sec. Mayorkas declares 'acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers' to prevent illegal border crossings
[BLAZE] Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is calling for the construction of barriers and roads near the U.S. border in a bid to avert unlawful entries into the country.

"There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas," Mayorkas declared in a document filed on the Federal Register. While the document is currently available to read, the Federal Register website describes it as "unpublished," but indicates that it is slated to be published on Thursday.

Month after month America's southern border is inundated by massive numbers of people.

"The United States Border Patrol's (Border Patrol) Rio Grande Valley Sector is an area of 'high illegal entry.' As of early August 2023, Border Patrol had encountered over 245,000 such entrants attempting to enter the United States between ports of entry in the Rio Grande Valley Sector in Fiscal Year 2023," Mayorkas noted. "Therefore, I must use my authority under section 102 of IIRIRA to install additional physical barriers and roads in the Rio Grande Valley Sector."
Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-05 06:28|| || Front Page|| [11149 views ]  Top
 File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants 

#1 ...... construction of barriers and roads near the U.S. border in a bid to avert unlawful entries into the country.

Key word "near", meaning on our side. Towers, wire, tentage, cots.... no graphic required.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-05 06:35||   2023-10-05 06:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Seems like there was a guy not long ago that wanted to build a wall, we had to save all our money though so we could send it elsewhere.
Posted by Chris 2023-10-05 10:23||   2023-10-05 10:23|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 "near" -

From the New Mexico border north to the Oklahoma panhandle, along the southern Oklahoma border then, south on the western border of Louisiana.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-10-05 10:29||   2023-10-05 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Through the first half of Biden's term from January 2021 through January 2023, Customs and Border Protection reported 5,118,661 (5.1+M) encounters, with 1.2+ million seen and confirmed walk-ins.

Note the use of confirmed. That's how many the FED's knowingly let illegally enter the USA. Logically a sane person has to wonder how many they missed seeing? Thus allowing a free pass, to a US taxpayer paid meal ticket.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-10-05 10:38||   2023-10-05 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 "There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas," Mayorkas declared

Only the fact it was a written document kept his lips from falling off.
Posted by Bobby 2023-10-05 10:42||   2023-10-05 10:42|| Front Page Top

#6 But not a Trumpian Wall, no, never.
Posted by Bobby 2023-10-05 10:43||   2023-10-05 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Was there ever a face more deserving for a full frontal bitch-slap? What a vile and utterly disgusting creature!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-10-05 12:14||   2023-10-05 12:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Didn't the Dims and Deep State just sell a lot of the wall panels for scrap.
Posted by Enver Dingle4916 2023-10-05 12:27||   2023-10-05 12:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Sure, and the way they handle building stuff, it'll cost $127tr, take 42 years, be made of chinese steel, and be installed in Ukraine.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-10-05 13:35||   2023-10-05 13:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Sure, and the way they handle building stuff, it'll cost $127tr, take 42 years, be made of chinese steel, and be installed in Ukraine.

Shishou!!!
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-10-05 13:43||   2023-10-05 13:43|| Front Page Top

#11 AOC hardest hit.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-10-05 14:51||   2023-10-05 14:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Watch the hands, not the mouth.

Next election's getting closer, ain't it?
Posted by Fred 2023-10-05 14:57||   2023-10-05 14:57|| Front Page Top

#13 ^^^ Next election that they are suddenly afraid of losing...
Posted by Tom 2023-10-05 15:16||   2023-10-05 15:16|| Front Page Top

#14 interestingly, Trump also waited about 2 years before he got around to building a wall

much of that 2 years was wasted on futile legislative stuff and Trump's admin only went into high speed on wall installation after the Republicans lost their house majority in the 2018 elections

still they managed to achieve a lot of miles of construction of good quality wall - if they had started in 2017 it would have been mostly completed by 2020
Posted by lord garth  2023-10-05 15:36||   2023-10-05 15:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he will waive dozens of federal regulations—26 in total—in order to fast-track the construction of roads and barriers along the southern border in Texas.

DHS Waives 26 Laws to Allow Border Wall Construction

Wonder why Trump didn't do that? Maybe nobody gave him the password?
Posted by Bobby 2023-10-05 16:31||   2023-10-05 16:31|| Front Page Top

#16 According to The Wall Street Journal, the crossings are disrupting the supply chain.

Supply Chain, being of the language used by Ultra-MAGA to insurrect federal policy.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-10-05 16:42||   2023-10-05 16:42|| Front Page Top

#17 [AP, via Townhall] The Biden administration announced it waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction on Wednesday, marking the administration’s first use of a sweeping executive power employed often during the Trump presidency.

I am so confused! Unless the AP is prevaricating.
Posted by Bobby 2023-10-05 16:48||   2023-10-05 16:48|| Front Page Top

#18 So, are they going to drop their lawfare efforts to get TX governor to take floating barriers out of the Rio Grande?
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-05 17:17||   2023-10-05 17:17|| Front Page Top

#19 No MM. That wasn't their idea so it has no merit.
Posted by Mullah Richard OTR 2023-10-05 19:12||   2023-10-05 19:12|| Front Page Top

#20 Internal Dem polling data on the border must be very bad to reverse the “not one foot of border wall will be built by my administration”
Posted by Airandee 2023-10-05 19:30||   2023-10-05 19:30|| Front Page Top

#21 "Kinda makes you want to throat-punch him."

"What? Just now?"
Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-05 23:12||   2023-10-05 23:12|| Front Page Top

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