President Joe Biden’s administration has assured that will add sections to the controversial border wall that Trump built as a star measure to prevent the arrival of migrants from Mexico.

The US president pivots and adopts one of Trump’s key measures, despite the fact that one of Biden’s first measures after taking office in January 2021 was to issue a proclamation pledging that no more dollars would be diverted from American taxpayers to build a border wall, and promised to review all resources that had already been committed.

The Biden administration has attempted to justify its stance ensuring that this review of the wall will be carried out to exhaust the budget that was allocated during Trump’s mandate in 2019 for this milestone. The Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, insisted in a statement that there was “no new Administration policy regarding border walls.” Thus, he has insisted that “from day one, this Administration has made it clear that a border wall is not the answer.”

Mayorkas has insisted that the construction project was appropriated during the previous administration and the law requires the government to use the funds, with an announcement made at the beginning of the year. “We have repeatedly asked Congress to rescind this money, but it has not done so and we are obligated to follow the law,” he reiterated.

Trump is the leading candidate for the Republican Party nomination to compete with Democrat Biden in the 2024 presidential elections. During the election campaign that led him to the presidency of the United States, he made the construction of border barriers his motto: “Build that wall.”

Former President Donald Trump has accused Biden of appropriating his star measure, although he has celebrated that he perpetuates it. “As I have often said, over thousands of years“There are only two things that have consistently worked, wheels and walls!” Trump wrote on social media. “Will Joe Biden apologize to me and the United States for taking so long to get going?”

For his part, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has assured that this movement It’s a “step back.”