NEWS: Congressman Greg Casar on the Administration’s Border Wall Announcement

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas)released the following statement after the announcement from the Biden Administration that it will waive 26 laws to continue the construction of border walls in the Rio Grande Valley:

“For years, we have fought against border walls because they are inhumane, don’t work, and divide our communities,” said Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas). “Republicans may have pushed for this funding in 2019, but President Biden did not have to take extra steps to make it easier to build a border wall in South Texas. It’s Democrats’ job to push back against border walls, and create an immigration system that is safe and orderly for asylum seekers. It’s our job to change policies, like Trump-era sanctions, that contribute to destabilization of Latin American economies. I urge the Administration to reverse this needless decision.”

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Congressman Greg Casar represents Texas’s 35th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, which runs down I-35 from East Austin to Hays County to the West Side of San Antonio.  A labor organizer and son of Mexican immigrants, Casar serves as the Whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus for the 118th Congress. He also serves on the Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the Committee on Agriculture.