A federal judge has ordered President Joe Biden to continue construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border using funds allocated under former President Donald Trump.
Late last week, Judge Drew Tipton issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Biden administration to stop diverting funds originally earmarked for border wall construction from border wall construction.
In 2019, Congress approved billions of dollars in funding to build a border wall along the southern border. On his first day in office, Biden halted all border wall construction.
As a result, Texas and Missouri sued Biden for not using funds earmarked for border wall construction.
Tipton ordered Biden to use funds earmarked to build a border wall.
The Government and all its officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, and other persons actively cooperating or participating with the Government, unless their duties are authorized below, will be You will be prohibited and bound from implementing the revised plan. Sections 209(a)(1) and 210 as set forth in this Order.
The government may use funds under section 209(a)(1) and Mandating matching funds under Section 210 is prohibited. Expenses of this type may be approved under subsections (a)(2) through (a)(5) as appropriate, but subsection (a)(1) provides for additional walls; Only the construction of physical barriers such as fences and buoys is permitted. ,Such.
This preliminary injunction shall remain in effect until final resolution of the merits of the case or until further order from this Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, or the United States Supreme Court. .
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“Mr. Biden acted completely inappropriately by refusing to spend the money Congress appropriated for border wall construction and then attempting to divert that money,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. said. Said In a statement. “His actions demonstrate his desperation to open the border at all costs, but Texas won.”
Dale Wilcox of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) said the case shows the Biden administration is “at war with immigration law.”
“I’m glad the court has checked the regime’s lawlessness here and ordered the construction of the wall that the law requires us to build,” Wilcox said.
Biden halted border wall construction in early 2021, despite a 2017 internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo calling it the most effective deterrent against illegal immigration. did.
“This is a victory for border security and the rule of law,” said Breitbart News senior legal contributor Ken Krukowski. “When President Trump ordered his staff to find money that could be used to build a wall, and later OMB Director Russ Vought and OMB General Counsel Mark Paoletta found the money, the pro-open border crowd gnashed its teeth. .”
“The same principle holds that when Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose, federal law requires the administration to spend those funds only on items authorized by Congress,” it added. “If Congress specifies that these funds be spent on border construction, Joe Biden and his Cabinet must follow that law.”
The case is texas vs bidenno. 7:21-cv-00272 United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Please email jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
