On Thursday, Biden signed off on constructing 20 miles of new barriers in the Rio Grande Valley, saying the money had been appropriated before he took office.
Joe Biden has faced criticism from both sides of the political spectrum for approving a small section of wall along the United States-Mexico border while continuing to emphatically deny that such barriers stop the flow of undocumented migrants that has continued to grow.
-Mexico frontier will be comprised of 20 miles of barriers in a rural stretch of the Rio Grande Valley on the southern tip of Texas.According to approval documents signed off by Mayorkas, the Starr County construction will cover an area deemed to be of 'high illegal entry.' In the year to August, there were nearly 300,000 encounters in the sector, CBP figures show.
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