Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion to prevent the Biden administration from selling sections of the border wall, alleging the action is illegal and violates a court order. This comes amidst reports of unused border wall materials being auctioned off.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted a motion on Tuesday to halt the sale of sections of the border wall . Paxton said in a statement that he took action 'following reports that the Biden administration is illegally selling segments of the border wall at the United States-Mexico border.
' It comes after reports emerged that material intended for the wall was removed in Arizona and set for auction, just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, the barrier's staunchest advocate, returns to the White House to implement his hard-line immigration agenda. Newsweek contacted the White House for comment via email outside of normal office hours. Video footage obtained by The Daily Wire revealed sheets of the border wall being towed near Tucson, Texas, en route to a government surplus equipment auction site called GovPlanet. A narrow majority of respondents support Trump's flagship border wall policy initiated in 2016, with 53% backing a major expansion of wall construction along the U.S.-Mexico border, a 13-point increase since 2019, according to polling by Gallup. However, last year, Congress directed President Joe Biden's administration to dispose of unused border wall materials under the National Defense Authorization Act. The legislation allows for the sale or donation of these materials to southern border states, as long as they are used to repair existing barriers, not construct new ones. Lawmakers also required the Pentagon to provide a report on the storage costs associated with keeping the materials. Paxton's motion claims the sale of border wall pieces violates a May 2024 federal court order that ruled that the Biden administration must continue border wall construction using roughly $1.4 billion that Congress allocated for a barrier along the southern border that the administration had previously tried to redirect
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