Senate Rejects Measure To Restart Border Wall

Senate Democrats Blocked, a Measure that would have Required the Federal Government to Resume Building the Southern Border Wall, and Implement other Border Security Measures, to Curb a Mmassive influx of Illegal Immigration.

Lawmakers Voted to Reject a Provision, 48-49, authored by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), that would have Prevented the Federal Government, from Canceling Construction Contracts to Build the Border Wall and Iimplement other Border Security Measures.

Johnson offered the Provision, as an Amendment to a $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Measure, the Senate is aiming to pass by next week.

President Biden, Canceled the Construction of the Border Wall, when he took Office in January.

Illegal Immigration, this year, has surged to Historic Levels, and the Flow of Migrants has Overwhelmed the Border Patrol and immigration Officials. More than 200 Miles of Border Wall remains Incomplete, and Construction Material has been left sitting on the Ground, thanks to Biden's Directive. “This administration is in a complete state of denial regarding the crisis that is on the border,” Johnson said Wednesday. “President Biden is the root cause of this crisis."

Johnson said the U.S. is averaging more than 6,000 Border Apprehensions every day. “There was a time when securing the border was a nonpartisan issue,” Johnson said, pointing to Border Security Legislation, from 15 years ago that Democrats, including Biden, backed.

Democrats Rejected Restarting the Wall Construction and said $10 Billion of the Funding was Wrongfully Redirected by Trump from Military Accounts and aimed at “well-connected contractors.”

Democrats said the Biden Administration is Reviewing the Contracts and will work to begin “commonsense projects” along the Border to ensure National Security. “We must not look back on the former administration’s boondoggle,” said Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI).

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and a Key Infrastructure Negotiator, Backed Johnson’s Amendment. Capito said forthcoming Numbers on Border Apprehensions, in July, will likely top 6,000 and that 150 Miles of Wall Funding, already Approved by Congress, are now in Jeopardy as Hundreds of Thousands of Illegal Immigrants have poured over the Border.

“The border wall is infrastructure,” Capito said. “It’s infrastructure to keep America safe. It’s infrastructure to prohibit drugs from entering the country, and it’s infrastructure to control illegal immigration.”

Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), said the U.S. has “a moral imperative” to look out for the People who arrive on the U.S. Border seeking Asylum and address the Root Causes of Immigration in the Countries People are Fleeing.

We need a Southern Border Barrier, but it needs to be, a Multi-Use of Technologies and a Physical Barrier. but we also need more Official Crossings.










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