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Biden reverses course and builds border wall with Trump funding

By Anna Giaritelli
Published October 5, 2023 2:16pm ET
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Biden reverses course and builds border wall with Trump funding
A man passes new border wall sections, right, as they replace the old fencing, left, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020, near Yuma, Arizona. Top Trump administration officials will visit South Texas five days before Election Day to announce they have completed 400 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall, attempting to show progress on perhaps the president's best-known campaign promise four years ago. But most of the wall went up in areas that already had smaller barriers. | (Elliot Spagat/AP)

The Biden administration has walked back President Joe Biden‘s 2020 campaign promise that “there will not be another foot of wall constructed” along the United States-Mexico border with new plans to waive two dozen federal laws in order to swiftly erect a barrier in Texas.

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