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The Biden administration It said on Friday it would stop selling materials to be used to build a border wall ahead of the arrival of the Trump administration, which has promised to restore tougher efforts to combat illegal immigration.
The Biden administration confirmed in court that it will accept a court order barring it from disposing of any other border wall materials for the next 30 days, allowing President-elect Trump to use those materials, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The Biden administration has auctioned off pieces of the border wall since at least 2023, with pieces for sale on auction markets, after it abruptly shut down most. border wall construction in 2021.
GOP SENATOR MOVES TO BLOCK TRUSTS TO REMOVE BORDER WALL MATERIALS Amid Auction Impact
Stacks of unused border fences sit in one of the border wall construction staging areas at Johnson Ranch near Columbus, NM, Monday, April 12, 2021. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
President-elect Donald Then Trump urged for the Biden administration to stop. Fox News Digital has reached out to Trump’s representatives.
“We have successfully blocked the Biden Administration from removing any further material from the border wall before President Trump takes office,” Paxton said.
“This follows our great victory forcing Biden to build the wall, and we will hold his administration accountable for illegally subverting our nation’s border security until his last day in office, especially when his actions are clearly motivated by desire to thwart President-elect Trump’s immigration agenda,” he added.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a press conference in Dallas on June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Tony Gutiérrez, file)
In a press release, Paxton’s office said that if the Biden administration removes border wall materials purchased with funds subject to an injunction in violation of a court order, “it would constitute unethical and punishable conduct and officials could be held in contempt of court.” “
Texas has said intends to do everything possible to help the incoming administration build the wall on the southern border when Trump takes office.
The Biden administration abruptly ended construction of the border wall in January 2021 after 450 miles had been built in the first Trump administration. While border hawks say a wall is a critical tool to stop illegal immigration, some Democrats have called a wall project xenophobic and ineffective.
President Donald Trump tours a section of the border wall, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in San Luis, Ariz. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The auction of parts of the border wall began in 2023 with pieces going up for sale on GovPlanet.com, an online auction marketplace. The Defense Department’s logistics agency told the media that the excess material had been delivered by the Army Corps of Engineers and was now for sale.
Those auctions have continued, with Arizona officials telling Fox News Digital that the auctions have been happening weekly for some time. The practice drew attention last week when The Daily Wire published a video showing unused wall pieces being transported on flatbed trucks to Arizona, even though the materials could be used in the next Trump administration.
Trump previously said Biden’s efforts to sell unused border wall materials at a reduced price “almost a criminal act”.
Trump said the auctions would cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to buy back the large steel and concrete bollards. He called on President Biden to “please stop selling the wall” and suggested his team would get a restraining order to stop the sales.
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“What they’re doing is really an act, it’s almost a criminal act,” he said. “They know we’re going to use it and if we don’t have it, we’re going to have to rebuild it, and it’s going to cost twice what it cost years ago, and that’s hundreds of millions of dollars because I’m talking about a very, very large wall.”
Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw, Brooke Singman and Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.
