The US Department of Defense said on Friday morning that with the executive order of the new US President Joe Biden, the construction of the wall on the Mexican border will be stopped.
“Renee W. Bronson, a spokesman for U.S. military engineers, told CNN: The Pentagon is suspending construction of the US-Mexico border wall following a Biden order.
“Bronson told CNN: U.S. military engineers will design a suitable program in coordination with the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, Customs, and Border Protection.
Former United States President Donald Trump has spent billions of dollars on US military spending over the past four years to build a half-finished wall on the Mexican border to advance his anti-immigration goals and policies.
In recent months, the Trump administration has been building a Mexican wall around the clock, which symbolizes his tough immigration policies, despite numerous orders from defense ministry engineers.
Immigration has always been a matter of tension between Trump and Democrats, and reducing legal and illegal immigrants has been Trump’s main slogan in the election. He worked hard to change visa policy, deport Latinos, and change the structure of asylum in the United States.
Trump’s policies toward Latin American immigrants halted a process that was reshaping the American image in Latin American societies, and revived the bitter memories of the experience of US presence and intervention in Latin America, and strengthened anti-American currents in those countries. The construction of the wall between the United States and Mexico was not just a wall for the Mexicans, but became a symbol of America’s hostile policy against Latin America.
In recent years, Trump has pressured his Mexican counterpart, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, to push for Mexico to build a border wall between the two countries, emphasizing that Mexico must pay for the border wall he has between the two countries.