Biden to Upgrade the Border Wall

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Biden to Upgrade the Border Wall

It’s either almost an election year, there might be something to the border crisis, or both. Jazz Shaw at Hot Air wrote that the Biden administration is allocating $950 million for repairs and upgrades to existing border walls in Texas, California, and Arizona, despite President Biden's initial promise not to build new walls. This move follows the announcement of a new wall section in Texas. The funds will also be used for road construction, high-tech cameras, and other detection technology. While some view it as a response to falling poll numbers and political pressure, concerns remain about border security and deterrence for illegal immigrants.

Shaw wrote:

I absolutely refuse to believe that Joe Biden or whoever is pulling his strings this week has suddenly “seen the light” and decided to do the right thing. The White House is in a panic over Biden’s plunging poll numbers and members of his own party are in open revolt over the crisis that a flood of migrants is causing in blue cities and states across the country. These tentative efforts at border security are an attempt at solving a political problem, not the real-world crisis that Biden’s policies created.

Unfortunately, while any improvement is better than nothing, there is still far too much of the border that remains accessible. The human traffickers and random asylum seekers will find somewhere else where they are able to walk across and word will spread quickly. Nothing will deter the masses until the rest of the world begins to believe that people can no longer simply show up uninvited and present themselves as asylum-seekers without repercussions. If all of Joe Biden’s migrant planes started heading out of the country instead of toward the cities of the migrants’ choices, then the message might start sinking in. But I don’t expect that to happen anytime soon.

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