{"id":1579929,"date":"2022-07-30T00:04:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T04:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579929"},"modified":"2022-07-30T00:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T04:04:05","slug":"white-house-says-border-wall-ineffective-after-administration-announces-plan-to-plug-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-says-border-wall-ineffective-after-administration-announces-plan-to-plug-gaps\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Says Border Wall \u2018Ineffective\u2019 After Administration Announces Plan to Plug Gaps"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fwhite-house-says-border-wall-ineffective-after-administration-announces-plan-to-plug-gaps%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=1579929&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--><p>The wall at the U.S.-Mexico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-border\">border<\/a> is not effective, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-white-house\">White House<\/a> said on July 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s ineffective,\u201d White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>She was speaking one day after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-admin-to-complete-more-of-trumps-border-wall-project-closing-4-gaps_4629653.html?utm_medium=social\">said it was planning to plug four gaps<\/a> in the wall in southern Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>The projects will \u201caddress operational impacts, as well as immediate life and safety risks,\u201d the department said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a Biden appointee, authorized the projects, which will be funded by money Congress appropriated to the agency.\u00a0His department in December 2021 said that it was going to plug \u201csmall gaps\u201d in the wall as it wound down projects greenlit under former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre on Friday insisted that the Biden administration was taking the step because of how construction was not complete in the area before the Trump administration ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not finishing the wall. We are cleaning up the mess that the prior administration left behind in their failed attempt to build a wall,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter noted that President Joe Biden, while campaigning ahead of the 2020 election, vowed that \u201cnot another foot of wall would be constructed\u201d if he were elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not finishing the wall,\u201d Jean-Pierre repeated.<\/p>\n<p> Wall Built Under Trump <\/p>\n<p>After assuming office, Biden sent approximately $2.2 billion that had been allocated for wall construction back to the Department of Defense. The cost of ending the wall was approximately $72 million, Mayorkas has said.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Trump era, about 650 miles of barriers were erected along the border, the bulk being constructed during the Obama administration. Over 118 miles of barriers were constructed during the Trump era, but the majority were replacing existing portions of the wall, according to the U.S.\u00a0Government Accountability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wall at the U.S.-Mexico border is not effective, the White House said on July 29. \u201cIt\u2019s ineffective,\u201d White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in Washington. She was speaking one day after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it was planning to plug four gaps in the wall in southern Arizona. 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