The Biden administration promised to fill major gaps in Arizona’s border wall, but not much progress has been made in nearly ten months, leading to outrage from Republican House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green and Republican Arizona Rep. Eli Crane, who both spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on July 28 that they will close the gaps at Yuma’s Morelos Dam, where thousands of illegal migrants have poured through in recent months. Upon entering office, President Joe Biden ended the construction of former President Donald Trump’s border wall and a subsequent surge in illegal immigration ensued across the southern border and Yuma was experiencing much of it.U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said Jan. 6 that construction would officially begin “next week” to close the gaps. However, no new fencing has been constructed, Vice President for the National Border Patrol Council Art Del Cueto told the DCNF.
“It’s been [more than] 246 days since President Biden alleged that securing the border was a ‘top priority’ and promised to fill the gaps at the border wall in Yuma, Arizona—to no one’s surprise not a single slat has been installed to this day. We know walls work. Border Patrol Chief Ortiz knows walls work. Every frontline Border Patrol agent has been explicit that a border wall is one of the first things they need to respond to the crisis at the Southwest border,” Green told the DCNF.
Construction workers have dug holes and filled some of them with cement to serve as a foundation for the wall, according to Del Cueto
