The administration of US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that it will begin construction of additional sections of the wall on the Texas-Mexico border in a region facing a wave of migrants trying to cross the border illegally into the United States, Reuters reports.

The Democratic administration’s Department of Homeland Security in Washington said it had to circumvent several laws, regulations and other legal requirements to “ensure the rapid construction of barriers and roads near the international land border in Starr County, Texas.” posting to the Federal Register of the US government.

The move marks a complete abandonment of the Biden administration’s policy on physical barriers, an issue that Trump campaigned on during the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections with his famous “Build that wall” slogan.

But one of Biden’s first actions after arriving at the White House was to issue a proclamation that “not one dollar of American taxpayer money will be used to build a border wall.” After taking office, Biden also ordered a review of all funding that had already been allocated to this account.

Biden and Trump tied in the polls

For now, Biden and Trump will face off again in next year’s presidential election, with the Democratic incumbent facing no serious challenge from his own party and the former Republican president authoritatively dominating the race within the Republican Party.

Opinion polls show that if the election were held tomorrow, Americans would have the same number of votes, which is worrying for the Biden campaign team, given that he had a large lead over Trump in the November 2020 election, but ended up narrowly winning the race in several key states

The shift in the Biden administration’s position on a wall along the Mexican border also comes amid a new influx of migrants to the United States’ southern border after a temporary drop in the number of people trying to cross the US border there in May.

The number of people trying to fraudulently cross the US border has actually decreased after the Democratic administration in Washington introduced stricter new asylum rules.

But in recent weeks, the number of migrants has begun to rise steadily again, as caravans of thousands of migrants, many fleeing a sharp economic downturn in Venezuela, have begun making their way through South and Central America to the United States. .

Alejandro Mayorkas, the US secretary of homeland security, said in his department’s publication in the Federal Government Register that the Border Patrol has intercepted at least 245,000 people this fiscal year in the Rio Grande Valley sector of the US-Mexico border alone.

“At this time, there is an acute and urgent need for the construction of physical barriers and roads along the United States border to prevent illegal entry into the United States in the project areas,” Mayorkas said.

The topic of illegal migration will once again be at the center of the US presidential election

The White House has not yet commented on the information, but Donald Trump immediately speculated on it.

“As I have often said, only two things have worked consistently for thousands of years: wheels and walls!” he wrote on the Truth Social social media platform he owns.

“Joe Biden will apologize to me and America for taking so long to move [în privința zidului]?” he added.

The increase in migrants crossing the border has put pressure on many American cities along the border, as well as up north.

Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, began an official visit Thursday that will take him to Mexico, Colombia and Ecuador to tell those who dream of coming to the U.S. that his city cannot accept them.