The Biden administration will waive 26 laws to build additional border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley, according to a notice posted to the federal register Wednesday, citing “high illegal entry.”
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a filing posted in the US Federal Registry that the Department of Homeland Security had concluded “it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads” in Starr County, Texas, along the US border with Mexico. Federal authorities are grappling with a new surge of migrants which has strained federal resources and fueled concerns in cities nationwide. Mayorkas referred to the area in the Rio Grande Valley as an area of “high illegal entry.” Border Patrol reported nearly 300,000 encounters in the Rio Grande Valley sector between last October and August, according to federal data.
Construction of the wall, according to the memo, will be paid for through a 2019 appropriations bill that funneled money specifically to a “border barrier” in the Rio Grande Valley, and according to Mayorkas, “DHS is required to use those funds for their appropriated purpose.”
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