The wall at the U.S.-Mexico border is not effective, the White House said on July 29.
“It’s ineffective,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in Washington.
She was speaking one day after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it was planning to plug four gaps in the wall in southern Arizona.
The projects will “address operational impacts, as well as immediate life and safety risks,” the department said in a press release.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a Biden appointee, authorized the projects, which will be funded by money Congress appropriated to the agency. His department in December 2021 said that it was going to plug “small gaps” in the wall as it wound down projects greenlit under former President Donald Trump….