– I want to build a big wall, no one builds walls better than me, believe me. And I want to build it cheap. I want to build a big wall on our southern border.
Donald Trump, known as a TV profile, businessman and billionaire, threw himself into the battle for the presidency in the summer of 2015.
“Mark my words,” he said already then.
Trump spent four years in the White House, but lost the re-election to Democrat Joe Biden last fall.
Then the verdict on Trump’s dream wall was crushingly clear. “No progress” struck BBC fixed, while the think tank Third Way referred to the promise as “Trump’s great wall of failure” that summer.
Now the Pentagon says it is canceling the construction of parts of Trump’s wall that are being built with military funding, writes Reuters.
MARS 2021: Ranch owner Tony Sandoval pictured in front of part of the wall that former President Donald Trump was trying to build. Here near the city of Rome in Texas. Photo: Ed Jones / AFP / NTB
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TEXAS: The picture shows an unfinished part of the boundary wall. The photo was taken on March 30, 2021. Photo: Ed Jones / AFP / NTB
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– Serious problems
In 2019, Trump declared a national crisis to redirect money to build the wall. In his first day in the presidency, Joe Biden called for the projects to be stopped at the border and demanded a review of the legality of the funding and contract methods.
“The Department of Defense is continuing to cancel all border projects paid for with money that was originally intended for other military missions and functions, such as schools for children of military personnel, military construction projects abroad in allied nations, the National Guard and reserve equipment,” said Pentagon spokesman Jamal Brown. a statement on Friday, according to Reuters.
It is not entirely clear how much money the defense will get back, but according to Reuters it will be billions of dollars.
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– The construction of the boundary wall under the previous administration tied up more than $ 14 billion in tax money, snatched our military and diverted attention from genuine security challenges. Rapid and random construction of the wall also resulted in serious problems for life, safety and the environment, says an official at the Biden administration to ABC News.
It is unclear when the Biden administration will finish its assessment of Trump’s project, but the president is under pressure from both parties, writes ABC News.
While Republicans want him to implement Trump’s wall, now as Biden’s promise of a more humane immigration policy has created chaotic conditions on the border with Mexico, the Democrats want him to phase out the project and return confiscated border areas to the owners.
– No end in sight
Dangerous erosion
At the same time as the ongoing assessment of the fate of Trump’s border wall, the Biden administration also says that they will start two new projects along the border, the TV channel writes.
The same day announced for Homeland Security that the Ministry shall take steps to protect border communities “from physical dangers as a result of the previous administration’s approach to the construction of the border wall”.
The statement states that the construction that took place during the previous administration caused large holes in the Rio Grande Valley’s “barrier system” for flooding, to make room for a boundary wall.
EROSION: Erosion protection and corrective action are needed along a 14-mile stretch of San Diego, according to customs and border officials. Photo: DHS Photo by US Customs and Border Protection / Released
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– The flood system had long provided protection for low-lying regions in Hidalgo County, Texas, as protection against catastrophic floods, and these holes threaten local communities. DHS will start work to quickly repair the barrier system and protect border communities.
In addition, what DHS describes as a dangerous erosion along a long stretch in San Diego, California, has occurred. This is due to incorrect compaction of soil and building materials along a part of the wall that has been built during the previous administration.
– DHS will begin necessary projects to ensure the safety of nearby border communities.
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– Great achievement
In his last days as president, Trump went to Texas to visit the border wall. This was the president’s first public appearance since the storming of Congress the week before.
He said from the rostrum that he was honored to be present with “the brave men and women at the border control.”
– We are here to celebrate a great achievement, the successful construction of the wall on the southern border.
Fires loose: – Not done a good job
In the speech, Trump boasted of the wall against Mexico and claimed that with it he has managed what politicians have promised for years – but then to turn around after they have come to power.
– Today we celebrate the completion of the promised 700 kilometers with boundary wall.
But in a review shortly after, struck NBC News fixed that he had not delivered on his election promise.
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Replaced old fences
The amount is less than half of his original promise, which was a 1600 kilometers of boundary wall. Only 75 of the 700 kilometers were new structures where no wall had existed before.
In 2015 and 2016, Trump said that he expected the wall to be 1600 kilometers long, along with mountains and rivers that would create natural barriers. In 2020, he scaled down sharply, stating that there would be more than 800 kilometers of masonry completed by the beginning of 2021.
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US customs and border officials tell NBC News that the Trump administration has built over 700 kilometers of new border wall system, which includes barriers, as well as roads for patrol cars and other surveillance measures. It mostly consists of replacing pedestrian and vehicle barriers that were set up by previous administrations.
Trump erroneously claimed that he built a whole new border wall through much of his time as president, while actually replacing older fences, strikes NBC News fast.
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