The current US President, Joe Biden, plans to construct a part of a wall along the southern border of Texas. This is being done in order to prevent an increase in the number of people immigrating to the US.
They will build a road in Starr County along its border with Mexico. Officials say lots of people are crossing the border there.
Making a border wall was a very important policy of Donald Trump when he was president. Democrats strongly disagreed with it.
In 2020, Mr Biden said he would not construct any more wall if he won the election.
His government made a statement shortly after starting that said building a wall on the southern border is not a good solution.
In a statement to Associated News on Wednesday night, the US Customs and Border Protection explained that they are using funds that were already set aside for a border barrier.
The Congress gave money for building a border wall in the Rio Grande Valley. The Department of Homeland Security must use that money for building the wall as intended.
The president is very worried because there are more and more people crossing the border illegally, and this is a big problem.
Government data shows that over 245,000 crossings have been made this year. It is predicted that September will be a month with the highest number of crossings ever recorded.
Many cities in the US are saying that they are struggling because of the increase in people coming in.
The Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, said that it will cost $12 billion in the next three years to provide housing for over 100,000 new people who have come to the city since last year.
This week, Mr. Adams is going to Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador. He wants to convince people not to leave their countries to go to other places. “We don’t have any more room,” he said on Tuesday.
President Biden’s secretary in charge of protecting the country wants to quickly build a new part of the wall to stop people from entering the country illegally.
The problem at the US border explained with just four graphs.
Cities in the United States that are geographically distant from the border are struggling with the issue of migrants coming into the country.
The Texas town is stuck in a conflict over America’s border.
Many important laws, such as the Clean Air Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, were set aside in order to allow its construction to happen.
Environmentalists are upset and angry about this action because they believe that building these structures will damage and disrupt the living spaces of plants and animals that are at risk of dying out.
Laiken Jordahl, a person who supports conservation at the Center for Biological Diversity, expressed disappointment in President Biden’s decision to disregard important environmental laws in order to construct border walls that harm wildlife without achieving their intended purpose.
US Customs and Border Protection plans to build barriers that are made up of big poles attached to a solid base, alongside gates, cameras, and CCTV equipment.
The Department of Homeland Security said they will use money that was set aside during Donald Trump’s time as president to construct the new part.
This is the first time the Biden administration has allowed the building of new walls. The previous administration, under Mr. Trump, frequently approved the construction of walls and built 450 miles of them.
MrTrump spoke to Fox News and said that the crisis was caused by the president repealing his tough border policies and now needing to bring them back.
“He said that he has to do all the things that we were doing. ”
MrBiden is getting more and more criticism for his immigration rules after a sudden increase in migrants coming into the US.
In August, the US Border Patrol caught 181,059 people at the southern border, which is more than the 132,648 people caught in July, according to the latest information.
Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stated that in just one week, 10,000 individuals came to the border each day.