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ihatebirds to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

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

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

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ihatebirds to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
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The Department of Homeland Security announced that the Biden administration leveraged sweeping executive power to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas.
  • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    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
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      Thank you for sharing sources - it got real fucking quiet after these links lmao.

      • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        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
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      Can you please provide a source for Biden repeatedly asking Congress to cancel the 2019 wall funds?

      • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        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
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          Thanks!

          • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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            For sure, have a good one

      • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        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
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      Hopefully, they at least switched contractors.

      • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        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
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          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
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            Oh, yeah, that’s what I’m saying. It’s the exact same law from 2019

            • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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              yep!

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

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