Trump built 720 kilometers of the wall on the border with Mexico: CBP

The achievement of the government of Donald Trump with the construction of 720 kilometers of border wall with Mexico “It is monumental,” said the Commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Tuesday, Mark Morgan.

At a virtual press conference, Morgan He said that on December 30 he was notified that 724 kilometers of “border wall new”.

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“I had to smile at myself: the media and critics had said it couldn’t be done. But we did it. It is a historic achievement of this government ”, he declared.

Mark Morgan recalled that building a border wall in the 3,200 kilometers between U.S and Mexico was one of the main promises of Trump.

Therefore, he considered that there could be a crisis in the frontera, if the promises of the president-elect are fulfilled, Joe Biden, on immigration.

The opposition did not stop the border wall

The project of border wall of the United States with Mexico ran into opposition in Congress, the Democrats, as well as defenders of migrants, environmentalists and of indigenous populations.

At the beginning of 2019, the president diverted border wall funds that the Congress had been approved for military spending, which generated lawsuits.

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Though Trump refusing to acknowledge his electoral defeat, Morgan referred to the transition of government and contacts with the staff of the president-elect Joe Biden who will take care of the migration.

“We are seeing an increase in the arrests of undocumented persons in the frontera. Preliminary figures for December show 74 thousand arrests; this is 7% more than in November ”, he said.

Morgan said the advisers of Biden they have admitted the need to delay some policies because “they know that if they apply them they will have a colossal failure.”

More than two weeks before the presidency of Donald Trump, the construction companies work at forced marches to cover the greatest number of kilometers of border wall.

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During the election campaign, Joe Biden He promised that he would halt the construction of the wall “as soon as he takes power.”

With information from EFE.

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