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Biden Order Ends Construction of Border Wall

1/20/2021

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Biden Issues Proclamation Ending "Immigration Emergency" and Halting Construction of
​Trump's Border Wall
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
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President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. issued a proclamation today terminating the emergency with respect to the Southern Border of the United States that was declared by President Trump and redirecting funds that President Trump diverted to border wall construction..  The action, embodied in Presidential Proclamation 10142, was one of six migration-related first-day actions taken by the new president.   This particular one asserts that the national emergency declared by President Trump will no longer be used to construct a wall at the southern border of the United States.
As a technical matter today's Proclamation terminates the emergency declared in President Trump's Presidential Proclamation 9844, and continued in several subsequent actions, is terminated and that the authorites invoked in that proclamation 
Today's proclamation orders the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to direct the appropriate officials within their respective departments to pause work on each construction project on the southern border wall, to the extent permitted by law, as soon as possible but in no case later than seven days from the date of the proclamation.

​It also ​directs the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with other officials, to develop a plan for the redirection of funds concerning the southern border wall.

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