Biden Admin Rushing to Auction Off Border Wall Materials to Stump Trump

However low your opinion of the Biden administration and the folks in charge of the border (I am looking at you, Alejandro Mayorkas), you still think too highly of them. 

If you think they are scumsucking demons, you are getting close but not there yet. Traitors to America and the American people? Certainly so. 

Read the full story from @JamesLalino for The Daily Wire. https://t.co/nl1KVr6m2m

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 12, 2024

The latest outrage is reported by The Daily Wire, which consistently does excellent reporting. They have uncovered that the Biden administration is rushing to auction off materials at ridiculously low prices that Trump bought to build the border wall.

The Biden administration is using its final weeks to haul a massive amount of border wall materials away from the southern border to be sold off in a government auction, an apparent effort to hinder President-elect Donald Trump’s effort to secure the border, The Daily Wire has learned.

Videos obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire from a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent show unused sections of the wall being hauled away on the back of flatbed trucks from a section of the border just south of Tucson, a hotspot for illegal crossings during the Biden administration. The agent estimates that up to half a mile per day of unused border wall is being moved.

“They are taking it from three stations: Nogales, Tucson, and Three Points,” the border patrol agent, who was granted anonymity to speak freely, told The Daily Wire. “The goal is to move all of it off the border before Christmas.”

Trump made clear during his campaign that he intends to finish construction of the border wall, making use of the materials that have remained untouched at the border since President Joe Biden took office in 2021. If the material brought to the border during his first term is sold off, it will significantly delay any progress on one of Trump’s flagship campaign promises at the border.

The Biden administration had already abandoned these materials in the desert just as they had abandoned the construction of the border wall, and now that Trump is coming back into office, they are rushing to deny him the materials–already purchased and ready to go–to continue border wall construction. 

It is not uncommon for administrations to try to lock in their policies before turning over power, but this is another level of obstruction of the voters’ will. The border and illegal immigration were key elements of the campaign and important reasons why Trump won. Usually, an administration’s attempt to lock in policies has to do with regulations or policies that people mostly don’t know or care about, but this is very different. 

This is directly thwarting the will of the electorate. The message that the voters want the border closed and the wall built couldn’t have been clearer. Biden (Mayorkas?) is intentionally making it harder and more expensive to accomplish a goal voters made overwhelmingly clear want done. 

This is outrageous and a big “screw you” not to Trump but to the American electorate. And it won’t change the policies or the plans to build the wall, but only make doing so more expensive and onerous to the taxpayer. 

The long-time border patrol agent has seen political fights play out over the border before, and believes that the Biden administration is trying to stymie Trump’s ability to quickly secure the border as soon as he returns to office.

“When Trump comes back, and he wants to start the border wall all over again, the whole entire funding fight is gonna happen again,” the agent said. “That’s their play. He’s gonna have to fight for this — again.”

The Customs and Border Protection Agency referred The Daily Wire to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saying the latter had jurisdiction over the materials until they are erected. From there, The Daily Wire was referred to the Defense Logistics Agency, where an official said the standing policy is to refer all media requests on this to the public affairs team at the Office of the Secretary of Defense. A member of the public affairs team declined to respond to inquiries.

Trump is expected to use an executive order to unlock funds to restart construction of the border wall that was halted under Biden, with anticipation that it could be one of his day-one actions.

Crane, the Arizona congressman, says the last-minute fire sale by the Biden administration is “a direct affront to the will of the people.”

Sabotaging Trump is bad enough, although given how sociopathic many people in politics are, it’s not enough to shock. I have seen some pretty awful things over the years. But this stands out because it is so clearly aimed at thwarting the will of most Americans, not just Trump himself. 

January 20th can’t come soon enough. Biden may have checked out, but clearly his minions have not and are determined to sabotage America as much as possible before Trump assumes office.