President Joe Biden on Thursday said that his administration was legally bound to build a section of a wall along the southern border, thereby breaking his campaign promise.
President Joe Biden on Thursday said that his administration was legally bound to build a section of a wall along the southern border, thereby breaking his campaign promise.
Biden suggested that he had no choice but to build the wall because Congress under the Trump administration appropriated funds for it. Biden officials on Thursday stressed that the administration is bound to use the money Congress appropriated for border security.
“The money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to redirect that money,” Biden said Thursday. “They didn’t. They wouldn’t, and in the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated. I can’t stop that.”
Biden also said that he did not believe a border wall works to stop illegal immigration.
