(Pheonix, Arizona) The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency was authorized to begin cleaning up construction sites and filling openings in the wall on the border with Mexico, nearly a year after President Joe Biden took office and ordered the work to be stopped.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement this week that the Department of Defense initiated wall construction projects in California, Arizona and parts of Texas will be handed over to his agency, so that any safety and environmental problem can be solved.
PHOTO ED JONES, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ARCHIVES
Part of the unfinished border wall dear to former US President Donald Trump. The photo was taken near Roma, a southern Texas border town, on March 28, 2021.
The work will include the installation of drainage systems to prevent flooding, erosion control and slope stabilization, the construction and improvement of access roads and the safe removal of construction materials that will not be used. most used.
It is not known when the clean-up and remediation work could begin.
The Customs and Border Protection Agency will also fill any openings made since the previous construction and complete work on the gates, including storm gates that are due to open during the rainy season.
Secretary Mayorkas said the Biden administration is still asking Congress to roll back all funding for the border wall by former President Donald Trump and fund technology and other types of border security measures instead, rather than the House. -Blanche judges more efficient.