{"id":1137990,"date":"2021-12-21T14:04:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T19:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1137990"},"modified":"2021-12-21T14:04:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T19:04:59","slug":"after-yearlong-halt-in-construction-biden-admin-to-close-gaps-left-in-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-yearlong-halt-in-construction-biden-admin-to-close-gaps-left-in-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"After Yearlong Halt in Construction, Biden Admin To Close Gaps Left in Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-yearlong-halt-in-construction-biden-admin-to-close-gaps-left-in-border-wall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1137990&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.538461538462\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Homeland Security announcement comes amid record surge in illegal immigration<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Border-patrol-736x491-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Border-patrol-scaled-e1634678748651.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Border-patrol-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Border-patrol-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Border-patrol-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Border-patrol-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Border-patrol-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Border-patrol-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tA U.S. Border Patrol agent drives an all-terrain vehicle past an open automatic gate in a new section of the steel bollard-style border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/cole-carnick\/\" title=\"Posts by Cole Carnick\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Cole Carnick<\/a> \u2022 December 21, 2021 2:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"65.0416918429\">\n<p>Nearly a year after President Joe Biden suspended development of the southern border wall, his administration announced Monday it will close gaps left open by the halt in construction.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2021\/12\/20\/dhs-address-life-safety-environmental-and-remediation-requirements-border-barrier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> it will focus on gaps in the border in its Tucson, El Paso, and Yuma sectors\u2014regions that have seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\/usbp-sw-border-apprehensions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">record levels<\/a> of illegal immigration this year. DHS said it will also add &#8220;missing gates&#8221; and connect &#8220;power to gates that are already hung but are currently inoperable.&#8221; Border Patrol agents use the so-called emergency rescue gates to save migrants stranded in irrigation canals.<\/p>\n<p>Biden in January suspended construction of the southern border wall, started under former president Donald Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borderreport.com\/hot-topics\/the-border-wall\/monumental-450-miles-of-border-wall-completed-funding-for-hundreds-more-secured-acting-cbp-head-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaving<\/a> hundreds of miles of border construction incomplete. In the months since, U.S. authorities apprehended more than 1.7 million migrants at the border, according to Customs and Border Protection, the highest single-year count on record.<\/p>\n<p>Among other efforts to address problems stemming from the halt in border construction, DHS said it will tackle soil erosion and flooding near unfinished projects.<\/p>\n<p>The initiatives are expected to begin next year, CBP officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/immigration-border-wall-biden-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> CBS News. In the agency&#8217;s statement, DHS called on Congress to cancel funds it allocated for border wall construction during the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The administration continues to call on Congress to cancel remaining border wall funding and instead fund smarter border security measures that are proven to be more effective at improving safety and security at the border,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Homeland Security announcement comes amid record surge in illegal immigration  A U.S. Border Patrol agent drives an all-terrain vehicle past an open automatic gate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}