{"id":1918842,"date":"2023-04-25T04:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T08:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-introduces-bill-to-restart-border-wall-construction-bolster-security\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T04:57:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T08:57:19","slug":"house-gop-introduces-bill-to-restart-border-wall-construction-bolster-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-introduces-bill-to-restart-border-wall-construction-bolster-security\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Introduces Bill to Restart Border Wall Construction, Bolster Security"},"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%2Fhouse-gop-introduces-bill-to-restart-border-wall-construction-bolster-security%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=1918842&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 class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0424\/2620fec5-ebc0-483a-ba4f-68fcab91dba1\/audio.mp3?length=3924909&#038;duration=327\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans are taking action to strengthen security along the U.S. southern border with their new Border Reinforcement Act. The bill would require President Joe Biden\u2019s administration to resume construction on the border wall between the United States and Mexico, which was halted upon taking office in January 2021. The federal government has already paid for the barrier, and since construction was stopped, the materials have been lying along the border unused, costing the United States at least $72 million.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5216387\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/24\/id5216387-Migrant-caravan-2-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Migrants from Central and South America take part in a caravan heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border while carrying signs protesting the death of 40 migrants in last month\u2019s fire at a Mexican detention center in Tapachula, Mexico, on April 23, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>The Border Reinforcement Act would also require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide monthly reports on illegal encounters. Republicans accuse DHS of trying to hide such data from the American people through late-night document dumps and other means.<\/p>\n<p>With an unprecedented influx of illegal immigrants along the southern border, Republicans have made it clear that they blame Biden and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for the situation, which they dub the \u201cBiden border crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) wrote in a New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/23\/house-republicans-deliver-on-commitment-to-secure-the-border-because-biden-never-will\/\">op-ed<\/a>\u00a0that Republicans were trying to address the border \u201cbecause Biden never will.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3718196\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/03\/03\/Rep.-Mark-Green-screenshot-1200x676.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), in an interview with the \u201cAmerican Thought Leaders\u201d program at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 28, 2021. (The Epoch Times)<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans made a Commitment to America last year to secure our borders and protect our communities,\u201d Green wrote. The legislation, which Green said was \u201ccrafted with the insight of those on this crisis\u2019 precipice,\u201d was designed to keep this promise, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration has abandoned our agents and sent the message that the laws concerning our sovereign borders are merely suggestions,\u201d Green continued, noting that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized enough fentanyl along the southern border to kill 2.5 billion people\u2014around a third of the entire human population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe terrifying part,\u201d Green said, is that these are just the drug busts that are known. But he cited federal estimates showing that the drugs seized at the border account for no more than 10 percent of drugs being trafficked across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Mayorkas, Green said, have \u201cmade clear they have no intention of securing our borders or restoring law and order.\u00a0That\u2019s why the committee has spent endless hours meticulously crafting real solutions to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the bill would nullify the use of a mobile application called CBP One, which allows people to register for asylum in the United States. Republicans believe that the app would further spur illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to give agents the tools they need to secure our border, not technological Band-Aids that incentivize more illegal immigration, such as the CBP One app,\u201d Green said.\u00a0The Biden administration, Green added, \u201cis using the app as a tool to allow illegal aliens to schedule appointments at ports of entry and be expeditiously released into the country\u2019s interior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Border Reinforcement Act is a crucial step in securing our borders and protecting our communities. Let&#8217;s hope that the Biden administration will take this issue seriously and work with Republicans to find a solution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee have introduced a bill designed to strengthen security along the U.S. southern border. The bill, called the Border Reinforcement Act, would require President Joe Biden\u2019s administration to resume construction on a border wall between the United States and Mexico. Upon taking office in January 2021, Biden halted construction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1918843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[22493,3811,5919,6203,3653,5413,20007,3646,4354],"class_list":["post-1918842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-bolster","tag-border","tag-construction","tag-gop","tag-house","tag-introduces","tag-restart","tag-security","tag-wall"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918842","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}