Slaton said that the steps taken by President Joe Biden shouldn’t stop the creation of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas.
“President Trump fought to bring real border security and was opposed by Republicans and Democrats in Congress. While hundreds of miles of the new wall were built under his leadership, the Biden administration has already ceased border wall construction,” Slaton said, reported The Texan.
“It is time for Texas to stand up and finish the work that President Trump started. Let’s finish building the border wall now,” he added.
The bill asserts that part of the wall shared with Texas could be named after Trump.
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“[DPS] must include as part of the transportation infrastructure, technology, and commercial vehicle inspection infrastructure at ports of entry along this state’s international border the construction to federal specifications for similar infrastructure of a wall to be named the ‘President Donald J. Trump Wall,’” the bill states.
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In recent days, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), said that more than 10,000 illegal aliens were seized in a single border area in Texas in about a week.
“We are weeks, maybe even days, away from a crisis on the southern border. Inaction is simply not an option,” Cuellar said in a news release.
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“Our country is currently unprepared to handle a surge in migrants in the middle of the pandemic.”
He added that some 2,500 illegal immigrants have been apprehended in the past two days since the press statement was released.
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Former President Donald Trump on Friday charged President Biden with sparking a “tsunami” of migration at the US-Mexico border by revoking Trump’s policies on asylum and illegal immigration.
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Trump fired off a 428-word emailed attack linking Biden to the border surge that’s already ordered the opening of two overflow facilities for unaccompanied minors.
“Our border is now totally out of control thanks to the disastrous leadership of Joe Biden,” Trump wrote.
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“A mass incursion into the country by people who should not be here is happening on an hourly basis, getting worse by the minute. Many have criminal records, and many others have and are spreading covid. Interior enforcement has been shut down — criminals that were once promptly removed by our Administration are now being released back onto the street to commit heinous and violent crimes,” Trump said.
Trump said the Biden administration has “given the smugglers and traffickers effective control of our border” and predicted that the border crisis would get worse.