Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs and dozens of House Republican colleagues will auction off unused border materials with less than a month until President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, according to a letter Tuesday. He strongly urged the Biden administration's decision. obtained Exclusive to Blaze News.
When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, his administration moved quickly to halt construction of the border wall and repeal President Trump's immigration policies. As a result, the Pentagon has begun auctioning border materials, a move that Biggs and others say “serves only as a legal device” for Biden to block President Trump from further securing the border. said.
“The fact that your administration has failed to do so after an election in which the president-elect made it clear he intended to erect more barriers undermines his goal of securing the border and stemming the largest flow of illegal immigration. Immigration in American History, which your successor has demonstrated a clear intention to prevent. ”
“These actions amount to a deliberate waste of government resources and are part of a deliberate effort to pre-emptively constrain the incoming administration on issues that were prominent in the last election,” the letter said. are.
“Since you took office, these border materials have been sitting just feet away from the border wall and adjacent unfinished areas,” the letter continued. “Every Border Patrol agent knows that the areas with the highest numbers of illegal border crossings are where border construction was immediately halted in January 2021.”
There have been 9 million immigrants nationwide since Biden took office. encountermore than 7.4 million of those cases occurred on the southern border alone.
“Since then, your administration has not expressed any intention to use border materials for any purpose or develop any plans to ensure homeland security at the border,” the letter said. “Instead, Americans are seeing a sharp increase in the number of people entering the country illegally, including a dramatic increase in convicted criminals and people on terrorist watch lists. ”
The letter also said departments like the Department of Defense could reasonably have chosen to retain certain materials for the incoming administration “considering government efficiency and budget constraints.” are. Nevertheless, the Biden administration decided to sell the materials anyway.
“The fact that your administration has not done so after an election in which the president-elect made clear his intention to erect even more barriers means your successor will be able to secure our borders and stem the largest flow of illegal immigration. “This shows a clear intent to prevent him from achieving his stated goals of “immigrants in American history,'' the letter said.
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