OPINION:
I’m reading that at the tail end of a pandemic and in the midst of a severe border surge, President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has formally announced plans to reallocate $2.2 billion of funding for the construction of the border wall on the U.S. Mexico border (“DHS ’legally required’ to spend Trump’s border wall money, officials say,” Web, June 11).
The Biden administration said the funds will be redirected, and it called the border wall “just one example of the prior administration’s misplaced priorities and failure to manage migration in a safe, orderly and humane way.”
First off, why is it our responsibility to manage another country’s migration? But that said, what better way to shut that illegal migration down than a psychologically devastating wall to seal off the border and discourage the migration in the first place? That is exactly the strategy former President Trump successfully employed and which Mr. Biden rolled back, causing the current crisis. And then Mr. Biden had the gall to claim he inherited it.
The more I see the Biden administration in action reversing Mr. Trump’s effective policies and destroying America, the more I’m convinced that the 2020 presidential election was indeed stolen.
On border security and energy independence alone — two gargantuan accomplishments that were on the wish lists of the previous dozen presidential administrations — Mr. Trump accomplished huge feats in a single term, and Mr. Biden has inexplicably dismantled these half-century victories. Tack on runaway inflation and skyrocketing crime for good measure, just to diminish everyone’s standard of living.
EUGENE R. DUNN
Medford, N.Y.
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