Trump’s wall construction continues despite Biden’s orders

Tucson – Despite the executive order signed by the president on Wednesday, Joe Biden, which orders construction of the border wall to be suspended, construction works will continue on Thursday, denounced environmental defenders.

“Construction continues, it hasn’t stopped. This morning we saw trucks transporting material, bringing heavy equipment to this region,” Tricia Cortez, executive director of the Rio Grande International Study Center in Texas, told EFE today.

Cortez, who is also a co-founder of the Coalition “Not Another Foot” – Not Another Foot (or Wall) – called on the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to heed Biden’s order and immediately arrest him. wall. According to environmental groups, hours after Biden was sworn in as president of the United States, construction crews dynamized another section of the mountain within the Guadalupe Canyon, on Arizona’s border with Mexico.

Hours after taking office, the Democrat signed an executive order halting the construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall.

The document states that construction must stop “as soon as possible”, although it gives a maximum time limit of seven days from the signature of the implementing decree to comply with the provisions.

The proclamation recommends an immediate pause in wall construction projects to allow for an evaluation of the legality of the funding and contracting methods used to build the wall and to assess the “administrative and contractual implications” suspension of the works.

“We owe them pending this deadline, we hope the CBP will follow President Biden’s orders and stop construction as soon as they stop,” the ecologist said.

His coalition is preparing a series of events along the border this weekend, so that the new administration will keep its promise to stop the construction of the wall, the seizure of properties and most importantly, terminate contracts with the construction companies.

The construction of the border wall with Mexico became a symbol of President Trump’s administration and during his presidency 720 kilometers of border barrier was built, many of which to replace existing fences.

“The border wall has never been a solution to the national security or immigration problem, it has always been a symbol for white supremacist groups. Our job will be to tear it down, ”she concluded.