US President Joe Biden has withdrawn the statement “national emergency” at the border with Mexico that his predecessor, Donald Trump, it justified the use of billions of dollars in military expenditure to build a border wall.
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In a letter to Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, released by the White House on Thursday, Biden said he decided the declaration of a national emergency on the southern border was declared by Trump claim that a migration and security crisis “had no merit”.
The construction of a fence along the United States’ 3,200-kilometer border with Mexico was one of the most promising Trump emphasizes in his 2016 presidential campaign, but Congress declined to allocate the funding he requested.
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In his letter, Biden also announced that it will be his government’s policy “no more taxpayers’ money to be diverted to the construction of a boundary wall” and that he has ordered a “careful review of all resources allocated to that work. assigned or diverted. “
There will be a careful review of all resources assigned or forwarded to that work
The wall was one of the components of Trump’s immigration policy, including the detention of hundreds of thousands undocumented immigrants and sending tens of thousands of asylum seekers to Mexico and Central America.
On his first day in power, Biden halted construction of the border wall with Mexico, vetoed the arrival of migrants from Muslim-majority countries and protected the DACA program, which protects 650,000 undocumented young people brought to the country by their parents as children, the so-called “dreamers”, from deportation.
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Likewise, it has suspended new registrations in the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, also known as’ Stay in
Mexico ”, which according to The Biden administration led the return of about 68,700 people to Mexico awaiting nomination to the US immigration courts.
On February 15, 2019, Trump declared there was a national emergency on the southern border and ordered the use of about $ 2.5 billion that Congress had approved for the Department of Defense, to continue the work started.
By the end of Trump’s tenure, fences had been built some 700 kilometers from the border.
EFE
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