Biden Abandons The Border Leaving A Huge Opening For Criminals

President Biden took office in January and almost immediately put a stop to the construction of a 30-foot high border fence, leaving a gaping hole at one of the most vulnerable spots at the US-Mexico border.

The 20-foot gap in the wall made it much more accessible to thousands of smugglers and migrants to illegally cross into the U.S. border patrol agents report.

“The contractors just stopped,” said Richard Barragan, a Border Patrol agent in the El Paso Sector.

Thousands of tons of steel and building materials were left right where they lay when construction was suddenly halted.

In a desperate attempt to deter the number of migrants at the mountainous site of the Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico border, Border Patrol agents began to fill in the gap using old truck tires and pieces of construction materials that were left behind when the federal contractors stopped their work.

“We have some agents who are good welders, and they put it all together,” Border Patrol agent Barragan said.

While he was still in office, the Trump administration allocated funds for the construction of the border wall however in June, the Biden administration announced plans to pull $2.2 million dollars from that fund to be spent on other projects amidst a rise in migrant border crossings.

Agents working the El Paso Sector, the area that stretches 125,000 miles between Texas and New Mexico have already detained 155,892 people in this fiscal year that will not end until Sept.30, that number is nearly triple the 54,396 encountered the entire fiscal year 2020.

In June the Department of Homeland Security said that it would redirect the construction money to the Pentagon for building projects on US military bases, describing the money allocated to the border as “just one example of the prior Administration’s misplaced priorities and failure to manage migration in a safe, orderly, and humane way”

The Trump administration allowed for the construction of more than 450 miles of the border wall, something Border Patrol agents on the ground were grateful for but something that Democrats strongly opposed.

“The wall enhances my officers’ safety,” said Gloria Chavez, chief patrol agent of the El Paso Sector. “It delays entry and allows the agent to have the advantage. Additionally, it protects the agent.”

Attacks on Border Patrol agents by smugglers and drug traffickers have nearly doubled in the El Paso Sector in the past year.

“Any infrastructure is helpful to us, ” said Barragan, surveying the makeshift construction that roughly covers the gap. “These are just some of the challenges we face every day.”