The Biden administration will reportedly begin construction on a nearly 14-mile section of fencing along the Rio Grande as the border surge continues to escalate - and as the administration continues to deny that it's a crisis.
According to this, the United States Army Corps of Engineers is set to restart construction in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, one of the busiest border sections in the nation, as the administration faces mounting calls from local and state officials to deal with unprecedented wave of unlawful border crossings.
The new administration, however, swears this construction project has nothing at all to do with stopping the flow of illegal migrants into the country, but will merely address flooding issues and close holes left in the existing border levee that were reportedly created under Trump in preparation for border wall construction.
"Wall construction remains paused to extent permitted by law. Per DHS, we’ve started critical work to repair the Rio Grande Valley’s flood levee, which was excavated to make way for border wall. This remediation work will not involve expanding border barrier," USACE posted on Twitter.
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Fox News reports even Democrats aren’t happy about the Biden administration’s total failure to deal with the massive surge of illegal aliens crossing the border every single day.
Del Rio, Texas Mayor Bruno Lozano, a Democrat, sounded off on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday expressing concern for the worsening crisis and the administration's failure to control it.
"They keep telling us that the border is under control and I simply do not understand how with a 392% increase this fiscal year alone," he said. "Last year, we had 19,724 captures at this point. And right now we're at 97,398. I simply do not understand how that's under control."
More than 1 million illegal aliens are expected to cross the border this year alone, a total that would mark a 20-year high. Immigration officials and border state leaders estimate that between 1,000 and 2,000 more illegal aliens are crossing undeterred every single day as border agents deal with an unmanageable surge of families, children and teens.