"Not one more foot."

Those had been the words Joe Biden used as a mantra through his 2020 presidential marketing campaign pertaining to the development of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. But on Thursday, the Biden administration authorized a prepare to full a portion of the border wall in close proximity to Yuma, Arizona. 

The prepare involves filling four big gaps in the wall that continue to make it possible for the Yuma region to be just one of the busiest corridors for unlawful immigration crossings.

Section of Homeland Protection Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas approved the new program, which was commenced by the Trump administration, in an energy to "deploy modern day, effective border steps" and increase "security and stability alongside the Southwest Border," the agency explained.

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Migrant households from Brazil passing as a result of a gap in the border wall following crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Arizona. (WHD Image/Eugene Garcia, File)

The undertaking will be funded underneath Homeland Security’s 2021 funds, though it was originally prepared to be funded by the Protection Department.

Yuma’s border sector stays an unsolved situation for the Biden administration as border patrol agents have already stopped migrants additional than 160,000 moments from January by means of June in the sector this 12 months.

The figure is almost quadruple the amount of migrant stops from past yr and the Yuma sector continues to be the busiest migrant sector in the state of Arizona. 

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Del Rio and Rio Grande Valley in South Texas had been the only other sectors with much more traffic alongside the whole U.S.-Mexico border.

The Yuma sector was notably occupied below Pres. Trump, who experienced portions of the border wall created or reinforced. There was also a plaque mounted along the Yuma border in 2020, affirming Trump’s position in securing the wall.

Biden’s determination to secure the border wall arrives right after Sen. Mark Kelly, D-AZ, has referred to as on the president to protected the border. Republican lawmakers have built equivalent calls. 

The Biden administration’s tranquil acceptance of the wall’s building also will come just after Biden typically applied it as a usually means of contrasting his insurance policies with these of the Trump administration.

In the past, Biden was frequently crucial of Trump, his border wall, and his immigration guidelines — which he referred to as "xenophobic" and "racist."

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In an op-ed revealed in the Miami Herald, Biden specially wrote that the slogan "establish the wall" was "divorced from truth" and a wall "will not end the flow of illegal narcotics or human trafficking, equally of which appear generally through authorized ports of entry."

"Nor will it stem the quantities of undocumented, most of whom around-remain authorized visas," he included.

Through an job interview in August 2020, Biden told NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro: "There will not be an additional foot of wall created on my administration, No. 1." 

"I am going to make guaranteed that we have border defense, but it is really likely to be based on making absolutely sure that we use substantial-tech capacity to deal with it. And at the ports of entry — which is in which all the poor stuff is happening," he included.

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Biden also ceased all new border wall construction following he took office and has instructed Congress to cancel funding for border wall building.

He has considering the fact that ramped up border stability actions. Biden also carries on to use billions of pounds Congress appropriated for the wall’s design. He can't legally refuse to do so — he is only permitted to pause border building tasks.

A gap in the border wall amongst the U.S. and Mexico is observed from farmland in Yuma, Arizona on June 1, 2022. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP by way of Getty Illustrations or photos)

Republicans have consistently sued Biden for pausing the border wall design. 

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"The Biden administration’s flat refusal to use money that have currently been set aside by Congress to construct the border wall is not only unlawful and unconstitutional. It’s also erroneous," Texas Legal professional Normal Ken Paxton reported in a lawsuit filed Oct 2021.

In January, Biden introduced a pause on setting up about 86 miles of a border wall together the Rio Grande citing an environmental review.

The contributed to this report.