{"id":1139145,"date":"2021-12-21T19:49:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T00:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1139145"},"modified":"2021-12-21T19:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T00:49:31","slug":"dhs-mayorkas-oks-closure-of-some-gaps-in-the-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-mayorkas-oks-closure-of-some-gaps-in-the-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Mayorkas OKs Closure of Some Gaps in the Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fdhs-mayorkas-oks-closure-of-some-gaps-in-the-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=1139145&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Border-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden\u2019s border agency will close up a few gaps and doorways in some sections of President Donald Trump\u2019s incomplete border wall, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).<\/p>\n<p>But the additional work is not intended to extend the wall against the economic migrants who are being allowed by Biden\u2019s deputies to take Americans\u2019 jobs at lower wages, to crowd into Americans\u2019 housing and schools, and to spike retail sales.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Instead, according to an agency statement, the project will fund \u201cactivities necessary to address life, safety, environmental, and remediation requirements for border barrier projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement also suggests that the agency might sell the not-yet-installed steel bollards ordered by Trump: \u201cActivities include but are not limited to \u2026 Disposing of residual materials not required for completion of the work as identified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement said:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"23\">\n<p>Work will be completed within the Tucson, El Paso, and Yuma Sectors to address safety concerns by closing construction access gaps that were left open at the time of the border barrier construction pause, and will also include adding missing [electronically controlled] gates, addressing incomplete foundations, and connecting power to gates that are already hung but are currently inoperable.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rescue gates provide access for Border Patrol agents and first responders to access irrigation canals in emergency situations where the water is fast moving and extremely dangerous.&nbsp;&nbsp;These emergency rescue gates are currently inoperable due to missing hardware or being welded shut.<\/p>\n<p>CBP will assess&nbsp;additional&nbsp;remediation&nbsp;needs in&nbsp;the San Diego, El Centro, Yuma, El Paso,&nbsp;and Del Rio Sectors and&nbsp;will prioritize completion of drainage and erosion control measures, safety work on border and access roads,&nbsp;and&nbsp;remediation of temporary use areas used for construction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement does not say if the agency will complete the half-installed surveillance technology along the border wall sections.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.6503496503496\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If the walls weren\u2019t absurd enough\u2026 here\u2019s a wide open door. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3VwTSHER4A\">pic.twitter.com\/3VwTSHER4A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Washington (@jbwashing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jbwashing\/status\/1453467935981256709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden\u2019s border agency is run by Alejandro Mayorkas, a pro-migration zealot who was welcomed by Americans into the United States in 1960 as a child refugee from Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking the job in February 2021, Mayorkas has used his agency authority to cut open <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/12\/20\/data-joe-biden-imports-almost-1-5-million-migrants-in-eight-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">numerous legal doorways<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 such as asylum claims \u2014 in Americans\u2019 national border.<\/p>\n<p>He maintains his support for large-scale migration despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/12\/20\/washington-post-low-wage-employers-struggle-after-cheap-labor-bubble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">huge civic and economic damage<\/a> that cheap imported labor inflicts on Americans and the United States. In November, Mayorkas showed his support for continued migration into the United States, when he was asked Tuesday by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): \u201cWhat should be a higher priority of the United States Government? Securing our border or giving amnesty to illegal aliens who are already here?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cJustice is our priority,\u201d Mayorkas&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A-ZUvKzmn_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">declared<\/a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/meetings\/10\/20\/2021\/oversight-of-the-department-of-homeland-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">a Senate hearing<\/a>, adding \u201cThat includes securing our border and providing [asylum] relief to those [migrants] who qualify for it under our laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Mayorkas\u2019 welcome for migrants is being curtailed by Biden\u2019s political team who recognize how Mayorkas\u2019 flood of migrants has damaged Biden\u2019s ratings among swing voters. The announcement may be intended by the political team to show some support for Americans\u2019 concerns.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Yet Biden and his deputies in the executive are refusing to continue building the wall, despite orders from the Congress which allocated roughly $16.4 billion for the project.<\/p>\n<p>The refusal to follow Congress\u2019 orders is arguably illegal, but the Democrat-friendly General Accounting Office has deemed Biden\u2019s shutdown to be merely a \u201cpause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [GAO] decision splits hairs to justify actions that, just two years ago, were determined to be contrary to \u2018the faithful execution of the law,\u2019\u201d&nbsp;said<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/06\/15\/gao-backs-bidens-freeze-on-congress-border-wall-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a June 2021 statement<\/a> by Sen.&nbsp;Richard Shelby (R-AL.) and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), the top GOP members of the Senate\u2019s appropriations panels.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>A July report noted that Biden\u2019s deputies are spending money <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/07\/21\/lankford-biden-has-wasted-billion-border-wall-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to not build the wall<\/a>. The <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lankford.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/GOBM%20Interim%20Report%20on%20Border%20Wall.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">report<\/a>&nbsp;said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>DOD [the Department of Defense] will spend \u2013 at a minimum \u2013 $1.837 to $2.087 billion to suspend and terminate border wall contracts. During the Trump Administration, DOD had obligated roughly $10 billion toward border wall construction projects. This means that the Biden Administration will have likely wasted 20 percent of the DOD funding that had been allocated toward border wall construction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden\u2019s inaction has left a vast amount of construction materials sitting unused along the border, even as hundreds of thousands of migrants cross the border into U.S. jobs. The <em>Atlantic Magazine<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/FfWIw#selection-801.0-809.105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> December 20:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"36\">\n<p>Along with the steel, contractors have left light poles, electrical supplies, crushed aggregate, processed riprap rock, sand, culvert materials, and piping\u2014altogether worth about $350 million, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\u2014sitting unused in the desert. The Corp wouldn\u2019t itemize costs of materials, and anti-wall watchdogs (as well as some basic math) put the total number significantly higher.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Although the unused light poles, rebar, and other material can probably be easily repurposed, the steel itself, mostly in the form of bollards, poses more of a problem. Just one site in New Mexico has about 31,000 bollards, according to calculations I made from aerial photographs. Another 20,000 bollards are spread across four sites in Arizona; a few thousand more sit in the chaparral hills outside San Diego. I spoke with one steel manufacturer that supplied material for the border wall. The company\u2019s spokesperson didn\u2019t want to be quoted by name talking about government contracts, but estimated that each bollard costs about $9,000, not including modifications (welding to steel panels and filling with rebar and concrete) or installation costs. If that number is close to accurate, about half a billion dollars\u2019 worth of steel is sitting in the sun in New Mexico, Arizona, and California.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/11\/zuckerbergs-investor-lobby-promises-wages-raises-with-amnesty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls show<\/a>&nbsp;that labor migration is&nbsp;deeply&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/immigration-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unpopular<\/a>&nbsp;because it damages ordinary Americans\u2019&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/03\/12\/bloomberg-opts-h1bs-take-two-three-new-tech-jobs-each-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">career<\/a>&nbsp;opportunities, cuts their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/04\/08\/elite-academics-hide-amnesty-wage-pain-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wages<\/a>, and raises their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/16\/new-yorks-mayoral-rivals-vow-cheap-housing-plus-more-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Migration also curbs Americans\u2019&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/07\/11\/president-trump-wins-big-on-secret-meatpacking-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">productivity<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/12\/20\/washington-post-low-wage-employers-struggle-after-cheap-labor-bubble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">distorts<\/a> their economy, shrinks their political&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com+%22john+binder%22+%22demographic+change%22&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS946US946&amp;oq=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com+%22john+binder%22+%22demographic+change%22&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.10228j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">clout<\/a>, widens&nbsp;regional wealth&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/13\/zuckerbergs-data-says-amnesty-gives-economic-windfall-coastal-democratic-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gaps<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/01\/survey-elite-imposed-migration-is-transforming-national-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">radicalizes<\/a>&nbsp;their democratic, compromise-promoting civic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/search\/?s=%22white+supremacy%22#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.q=%22white%20supremacy%22&amp;gsc.page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">culture<\/a>, and allows elites to ignore&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diseases_of_despair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">despairing Americans<\/a>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JorgeAl49986803\/status\/1439791277571145737?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">bottom of society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/03\/30\/harvard-harris-poll-5-in-6-americans-want-to-end-immigration-from-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wide<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/01\/14\/poll-americans-want-companies-hire-americans-before-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">variety<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/13\/ipsos-poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-want-immigration-moratorium-for-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls<\/a>&nbsp;has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/08\/05\/poll-swing-voters-hugely-oppose-2020-democrats-promising-more-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shown<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2020\/04\/24\/poll-trumps-opponents-applaud-his-jobs-for-americans-immigration-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deep<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/01\/31\/poll-shows-public-support-trump-migration-poicy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broad<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/05\/28\/business-poll-backfires-shows-public-wants-less-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/11\/16\/exit-polls-3-in-4-voters-want-less-immigration-during-and-after-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labor migration<\/a>&nbsp;and the inflow of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/08\/06\/ipsos-poll-public-opposes-migrant-workers-by-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">temporary<\/a>&nbsp;contract workers&nbsp;into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/03\/05\/survey-americans-underestimate-quiet-public-opposition-to-legal-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition<\/a>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/04\/29\/washington-post-poll-hispanics-are-the-strongest-opponents-of-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multiracial<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2020\/07\/11\/poll-suburban-women-strongly-back-donald-trumps-migration-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cross-sex<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/24\/survey-hispanic-americans-most-opposed-to-illegal-immigration-defunding-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-racist<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2018\/04\/27\/study-black-working-class-opposes-mass-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">class-based<\/a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/02\/22\/poll-democrat-sex-split-visa-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bipartisan<\/a>,&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USTechWorkers\/status\/1377363222005575680?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rational<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/05\/11\/harvard-poll-swing-voters-want-biden-to-embrace-trumps-border-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">persistent<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2021\/01\/22\/rasmussen-poll-liberals-and-wealthy-welcome-caravan-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recognizes<\/a>&nbsp;the solidarity Americans owe to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s border agency will close up a few gaps and doorways in some sections of President Donald Trump\u2019s incomplete border wall, according to a statement from the Department &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-1139145","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\/1139145","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139145\/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=1139145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}