THIS might be AOC's DUMBEST take yet ...



Our southern border has been open to the extent that the Texas National Guard is trying to close and lock gates — while Biden’s Border Patrol has kept opening them back up.

“I would say that that’s in complete contrary to what their freaking job is actually supposed to be, which is border protection,” Sara Gonzales says.

However, the Department of Homeland Security has since done a one-eighty and completely changed its tune. This week, the DHS released a memo explaining there is an immediate need for a border wall.

Biden disagrees and has voiced his frustration at Congress for shutting down his proposal to redirect money appropriated for the border wall.

AOC has also weighed in, releasing a statement that calls for the president to take responsibility for this decision to build a border wall and reverse course.

“A wall does nothing to deter people who are fleeing poverty and violence from coming to the United States. You do not risk your life or your children’s lives going through the Darien Gap or traversing hundreds of miles of desert if you have any other options,” AOC wrote in her statement.

“Walls only serve to push migrants into more remote areas, increasing their chances of death. It is a cruel policy,” she continued.

“I don’t mean to sound cold-hearted, but I feel like I’m a realist here,” Gonzales responds.

“This is our country. Borders are supposed to be sovereign for a reason.”

Eric July sees the current situation as a bit of a “white pill.”

He notes that in places like Chicago, the black community is coming together in support of a border wall after migrants continue to be shipped into their city.

“I think in the future, like I mean the very near future, that may be one of those issues that breaks that party,” he says.


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More than $100 million in unused border wall materials left to rust by Biden administration



More than $100 million worth of construction materials are going to waste in Texas after President Joe Biden canceled the remaining federal contracts to build a wall on the southern border.

Fox News reporter Bill Melugin said Monday there is enough steel to construct more than 100 miles of border wall, but only 14 miles were built before construction was stopped when Biden took office.

A Fox News air crew captured footage of an estimated 10,000 steel panels intended for the wall that have gone unused since January. Each panel is worth about $5,000, and they are just sitting in Pharr, Texas, turning to rust, Melugin reported on "America's Newsroom."

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"Upwards of $50 million just sitting there, going to absolute waste. Keep in mind, taxpayers have already paid for this. It's bought and paid for and nothing is happening with it," he said, adding that a second location with similar steel panels brings the total value of the unused materials over $100 million.

Fox News video shows the incomplete border wall in La Joya, Texas, where Melugin reports only half a mile of wall was built and migrants are crossing over the border freely.

"Basically, it's useless," he said. "We watch these migrants just walk around it all the time. It's not doing anything, and the border agents out here are having to run around left and right as runners are constantly coming through."

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that border wall construction in the Laredo and Rio Grande Valley sectors of Texas would be canceled. The termination of these federal contracts is in accordance with Biden's order to return funds President Donald Trump diverted from other federal agencies to build the wall back to the agencies from which they came. The Trump administration diverted over $10 billion in funding from military projects and other sources to build the wall.

The DHS said in a statement that Customs and Border Protection will now "begin environmental planning and actions consistent with the National Environmental Policy Act for previously planned border barrier system projects located within the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, and El Centro Sectors."

"These activities will not involve any construction of new border barrier or permanent land acquisition," DHS said.

Border agents say a physical barrier like the wall is necessary to create choke points where federal law enforcement can focus manpower and scarce resources to secure the border.

"Border agents tell us they really need the wall here," Melugin said. "They're incredibly frustrated."

Biden is still seizing private land for the border wall even though nothing is being built



President Joe Biden on day one of his presidency put an end to construction of former President Donald Trump's border wall. But three months later, Biden's government is still seizing private land for wall construction, even though no wall is being built.

This week, the federal government seized six acres of land from a family in Hidalgo County, Texas, after a federal judge confirmed the government's right to take the land in an eminent domain case that began when Trump was president. The land belonged to Baudilia Cavazos and her family, who have been fighting in court since 2018 to stop the government from taking it.

"We are utterly devastated," Baudilia Cavazos told Reason Magazine after the judge's decision. "We thought President Joe Biden would protect us. Now we've lost our land. We don't even know what comes next."

President Trump constructed more than 400 miles of border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, at times using eminent domain authority to seize private land for wall construction. Eminent domain is a power that allows the government to acquire private property for public use.

President Trump's administration wanted to use eminent domain to seize approximately seven acres of Cavazos land, constructing the wall in the middle of it and dividing it between the U.S. and Mexico sides. The family's home would have been on the U.S. side of the border, but several rental properties they own would have been inaccessible on the Mexican side, which the family says would result in a major loss of income.

Though Biden paused construction of the wall pending a federal review of the legality of its funding, his administration never withdrew the case against the Cavazos family. Their case was one of nearly 140 eminent domain cases that remain active along the southern border, Politico reported.

On the campaign trail, Biden promised to end these eminent domain cases, telling NPR in August 2020, "End. Stop. Done. Over. Not going to do it. Withdraw the lawsuits. We're out. We're not going to confiscate the land."

But so far, his administration hasn't kept its promise. The Department of Justice told Politico that it is seeking to delay the pending eminent domain cases until Biden's review of the wall project is completed.

The families that own the land, and progressive activists who believed Biden would enact a full reversal of Trump's immigration and border policies, feel betrayed.

"Yesterday, we witnessed a betrayal of the Biden Administration's commitment to end construction of the border wall," Ricky Garza, an attorney for the Texas Civil Rights Project, said in a statement. "In federal court, the President's pause on border wall construction is meaningless without immediate action from the DOJ to dismiss these cases."