TLDR: This is a 2019 law passed by Congress during the baby hands administration. The Biden administration has been pretty careful not to overstep other branches of government(I think as a direct response to how flagrantly and harmfully baby hands used executive action), and while Biden returned wall money taken from the DoD, the rest of the wall money was explicitly designated by Congress for building the border wall in 2019 and Congress will not cancel that legislative order(wall funds), despite Biden asking Congress to cancel the 2019 wall funds law since arriving in office in 2020.

This post is misleading, the money is being legally used for a legislatively required purpose and any federal laws are being broken legislatively by Congress as a result of baby hands in 2019, not the Biden administration.

[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for sharing sources - it got real fucking quiet after these links lmao.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, for sure. There was so much "clever zingers" getting thrown around that didn't add up logically or even hypothetically. Shout out to OlPatchy2Eyes, who found this link first but got buried in all of the comments and one uppers.

I just redistributed it to anybody who asked "why is this happening?"

[–] MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you please provide a source for Biden repeatedly asking Congress to cancel the 2019 wall funds?

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, Whitehouse.gov has an actual timeline.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2021/06/11/fact-sheet-department-of-defense-and-department-of-homeland-security-plans-for-border-wall-funds/

TLDR, day he became president, Jan 2021, He terminated wall funding he had legal control over, that's what I mentioned about the money going back to the DOD, called for Congress to reallocate cheeto wall funding, that request has been active for 3 years, and there's an official reiteration by the white house for Congress to cancel Cheeto wall funding.

[–] MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks!

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

For sure, have a good one

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

This one is with an interview of Biden:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4240303-biden-argues-his-hands-were-tied-with-border-wall-funds/amp/

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully, they at least switched contractors.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haha, I doubt it. It's the same law from 4 years ago so everything is probably all the same.

Are you referring to a specific debacle with the contractors, or just the fact that the walls fell apart so quickly and were immediately rendered ineffective after wasting billions of dollars building them?

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just found this thread and tracked down the original for you.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/05/15/2019-10079/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility

Which explicitly states the same language, but from 2019.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's the exact same law from 2019

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

yep!

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, the contractors that the trump administration used were just bratva fronts. So I would hope that we're at least not giving anymore money to violent pedophiles.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, I don't know anything about this. Do you mind giving a little exposition or throwing up a source I can read? Thanks