VA-11 Hall-A Bar
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
ihatebirds to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

Biden administration waives 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction in South Texas

apnews.com

external-link
message-square
194
  • cross-posted to:
  • politics@beehaw.org
477
external-link

Biden administration waives 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction in South Texas

apnews.com

ihatebirds to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
message-square
194
  • cross-posted to:
  • politics@beehaw.org
The Department of Homeland Security announced that the Biden administration leveraged sweeping executive power to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas.
  • @Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    42•2 years ago

    Why??? We’re experiencing a shortage of workers for the jobs nobody wants to do and there is an entire wave of people ready to get their foot in the door in our country. They’re not criminals either, all the people I know who are immigrants from Spanish speaking countries are kind, practical, outgoing, intelligent and hard workers- they definitely know how to party too. I wish more people would learn Spanish so we could fix this disconnect between the US and its neighbors.

    • @paultimate14@lemmy.world
      cake
      link
      fedilink
      76•2 years ago

      We’re experiencing a shortage of workers for the jobs nobody wants to do

      We’re experiencing a shortage of workers for the jobs no one wants to do AT THE WAGES THE EMPLOERS WANT TO PAY TO PEOPLE WHO ARE VULNERABLE TO EXPLOITATION.

      There’s not a shortage of workers, but of wages.

      • @PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        3•2 years ago

        Removed by mod

      • @SchizoDenji@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        3•2 years ago

        Except that US has an aging population and it’s going to get worse in future because the birth rates aren’t that high. Closing off border is going to fuck US in the long run.

        • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
          link
          fedilink
          English
          4•2 years ago

          Yeah, but by then all the old people making the decisions will have milked the system dry and died.

        • @paultimate14@lemmy.world
          cake
          link
          fedilink
          3•2 years ago

          Oh I agree the closing off the border is dumb. Only a tiny fraction of illegal immigration is over the border anyways: the vast majority is people overstaying Visa’s.

          But the whole “aging population” issue is just more propaganda from corporate interests to try to find ways to get more workers and continue to suppress wages.

          Why is the population aging in the first place? No one can afford to have children.

    • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      48•2 years ago

      Here’s what looks like an answer: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jun/30/joe-biden-forced-build-donald-trumps-border-wall/

      TLDR: This is a 2019 law passed by Congress during the baby hands administration. The Biden administration has been pretty careful not to overstep other branches of government(I think as a direct response to how flagrantly and harmfully baby hands used executive action), and while Biden returned wall money taken from the DoD, the rest of the wall money was explicitly designated by Congress for building the border wall in 2019 and Congress will not cancel that legislative order(wall funds), despite Biden asking Congress to cancel the 2019 wall funds law since arriving in office in 2020.

      This post is misleading, the money is being legally used for a legislatively required purpose and any federal laws are being broken legislatively by Congress as a result of baby hands in 2019, not the Biden administration.

      • @papertowels@lemmy.one
        link
        fedilink
        3•2 years ago

        Thank you for sharing sources - it got real fucking quiet after these links lmao.

        • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          1•2 years ago

          Haha, for sure. There was so much “clever zingers” getting thrown around that didn’t add up logically or even hypothetically. Shout out to OlPatchy2Eyes, who found this link first but got buried in all of the comments and one uppers.

          I just redistributed it to anybody who asked “why is this happening?”

      • @MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        2•2 years ago

        Can you please provide a source for Biden repeatedly asking Congress to cancel the 2019 wall funds?

        • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          14•2 years ago

          Oh, Whitehouse.gov has an actual timeline.

          https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2021/06/11/fact-sheet-department-of-defense-and-department-of-homeland-security-plans-for-border-wall-funds/

          TLDR, day he became president, Jan 2021, He terminated wall funding he had legal control over, that’s what I mentioned about the money going back to the DOD, called for Congress to reallocate cheeto wall funding, that request has been active for 3 years, and there’s an official reiteration by the white house for Congress to cancel Cheeto wall funding.

          • @MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            3•2 years ago

            Thanks!

            • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              4•2 years ago

              For sure, have a good one

        • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          2•2 years ago

          This one is with an interview of Biden:

          https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4240303-biden-argues-his-hands-were-tied-with-border-wall-funds/amp/

      • @RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        1•2 years ago

        Hopefully, they at least switched contractors.

        • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          0•2 years ago

          Haha, I doubt it. It’s the same law from 4 years ago so everything is probably all the same.

          Are you referring to a specific debacle with the contractors, or just the fact that the walls fell apart so quickly and were immediately rendered ineffective after wasting billions of dollars building them?

          • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            3•2 years ago

            I just found this thread and tracked down the original for you.

            https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/05/15/2019-10079/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility

            Which explicitly states the same language, but from 2019.

            • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              1•2 years ago

              Oh, yeah, that’s what I’m saying. It’s the exact same law from 2019

              • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                2•2 years ago

                yep!

          • @RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            1•2 years ago

            Well, the contractors that the trump administration used were just bratva fronts. So I would hope that we’re at least not giving anymore money to violent pedophiles.

            • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              2•2 years ago

              Oh, I don’t know anything about this. Do you mind giving a little exposition or throwing up a source I can read? Thanks

    • @2CatsOneBowl@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3•2 years ago

      Wouldn’t it be better if immigration was easier? That takes away the argument of illegals taking jobs blah blah.

    • @systemglitch@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      2•2 years ago

      What a narrow view when one looks at historic pay adjusted for inflation. Your view literally supports a lower quality of life for everyone not willing to work for a slave wage, that illegal immigrants are willing to do.

    • @legenderic@feddit.ch
      link
      fedilink
      2•2 years ago

      To take it away from the list of topics Trump can run with…

World News@lemmy.ml

!worldnews@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !worldnews@lemmy.ml

News from around the world!

Rules:

  • Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc

  • No NSFW content

  • No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

  • 529 users / day
  • 2.55K users / week
  • 5.08K users / month
  • 11.7K users / 6 months
  • 36.5K subscribers
  • 14K Posts
  • 129K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
  • @Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml
  • Jack.
  • @zephyreks@lemmy.ml
  • @OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.1
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org