The President of the United States, Joe Biden, rescinded the statement of “National emergency” on the border with Mexico with which his predecessor, Donald Trump, justified the use of billions of dollars allocated to military spending for the construction of a border wall.
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In a letter sent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, released this Thursday in the White House, Biden said he decided to declare a national emergency on the southern border declared by Trump alleging a migration and security crisis “had no merits.”
The construction of a fence along the 3,200 kilometers of the U.S. border with Mexico was one of the most promising Trump’s highlights in his 2016 presidential campaign, But Congress refused to allocate the funding he requested.
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In his letter, Biden also announced that it will be his government’s policy “not to divert more dollars from taxpayers for the construction of a border wall” and that he has ordered a “careful review of all allocated resources. or redirected to this work “.
There will be a careful review of all resources assigned or redirected to this work
The wall was one of the components of Trump’s immigration policy that included the arrest of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants and the sending to Mexico and Central America of tens of thousands of asylum seekers.
In his first day in power, Biden suspended the construction of the border wall with Mexico, lifted the veto on the arrival of migrants from Muslim-majority countries and shielded the DACA program, Which protects from deportation 650,000 undocumented youths brought by children by their parents to country, known as “dreamers.”
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It also suspended new registrations for the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, also known as “Stay in
Mexico “, which according to the Biden government, led to the return of some 68,700 people to Mexico to await their appointments before the U.S. immigration courts.
On February 15, 2019, Trump declared a national emergency on the southern border and ordered the use of some $ 2.5 billion that Congress had approved for the Department of Defense, In order to continue with the works started.
By the end of Trump’s tenure, fences had been built about 700 miles from the border.
EFE
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