President Joe Biden cancels Trump’s emergency order on the US-Mexico border wall
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| Donald Trump first introduced the idea of building the US-Mexico border wall during his presidential campaign in 2016. |
Also, US President Joe Biden rescinded the emergency order issued by former President Donald Trump on February 11, 2021, for the construction of the US-Mexico border wall.
Joe Biden said in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that, “I have determined that the declaration of a national emergency on our southern border was inappropriate.”
President Biden has announced that his administration’s policy will be that no American taxpayer dollars be spent to build the boundary wall.
On February 15, 2019, Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency to build a border wall on the US-Mexico after repeated confrontations with lawmakers over funding for the project.
The Trump administration had to go to court because of the proclamation of this emergency, as environmental groups and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenged the USD 2.5 billion in the Department of Defense spending, called the US-Mexico border wall construction Was provided for
This letter, written by environmental groups, was welcomed by all members of Congress who had long opposed the construction of this wall, saying that a physical barrier proved far less useful to address immigration or security concerns.
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