A Rush to Expand the Border Wall That Many Fear Is Here to Stay

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

A Rush to Expand the Border Wall That Many Fear Is Here to Stay

Despite the president-elect’s vow to halt the project, the Trump administration is expanding the wall at a breakneck pace.

By Simon Romero and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Photographs and Video by Adriana Zehbrauskas
Nov. 28, 2020, 1:53 p.m. ET

DOUGLAS, Ariz. — Four years ago, President Trump took office with a pledge to build a towering wall on America’s border with Mexico — a symbol of his determination to halt immigration from countries to the south and build a barrier that would long outlast him.

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has said he hopes to halt construction of the border wall, but the outgoing administration is rushing to complete as much wall as possible in its last weeks in power, dynamiting through some of the border’s most forbidding terrain.

The breakneck pace at which construction is continuing all but assures that the wall, whatever Mr. Biden decides to do, is here to stay for the foreseeable future, establishing a contentious legacy for Mr. Trump in places that were crucial to his defeat.

In southeastern Arizona, the continuing political divisiveness around the president’s signature construction project has pitted rancher against rancher and neighbor against neighbor in a state that a Democratic presidential candidate narrowly carried for the first time in decades.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/trump-biden-border-wall.html

[Frustratedlady]

1. They probably are rushing to finish as much as possible so the amount of money they spent

on what little they have done doesn't look so bad.

Biden needs to have someone audit the money assigned to the project, as well as the money Trump moved from one purpose to the wall. I would imagine the picture is not pretty.