Joe Biden says he is bound by laws introduced under Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON: US president Joe Biden on Thursday defended plans to extend the border wall with Mexico, saying he didn’t think such barriers worked but that he was bound by laws introduced under Donald Trump.
Biden, who is polling neck-and-neck with rival Trump ahead of a likely 2024 election rematch, insisted his predecessor had tied his hands on the wall-building. But homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas later said the announcement had been “taken out of context.” Meanwhile, some Democrats including progressive lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticised the wall decision. So did conservationists after it emerged that two dozen federal environmental laws would be waived to build the extension.“We have to comply by law and that’s what we’re doing,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
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