'This is a slap in the face': the Pentagon will build a wall on the border instead of housing by the military - ForumDaily
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'This is a slap in the face': the Pentagon will build a wall on the border instead of housing for the military

Money will be taken from funds intended for military construction.

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US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper approved the use of 3,6 billion dollars allocated for the construction of military facilities for the construction of the 280-kilometer stretch of the wall promised by President Donald Trump on the border with Mexico.

Pentagon officials said details would be released after members of Congress were notified Wednesday. According to them, half of the money will be taken from military projects in the United States, and the second half from projects in other countries.

Esper’s decision lays the foundation for a heated debate among lawmakers who earlier this year refused to allocate about 6 of billions of dollars to build the wall.

"This is a slap in the face to all members of the armed forces that serve our country when President Trump is ready to grab the funds already allocated for military needs to inflate his own ego and build a wall for which, as he promised, Mexico should pay," the Democrat leader said in the Senate Chuck Schumer.

According to him, the transfer of funds will affect the US Military Academy at West Point.

Congress allocated $ 1 billion in budget for this year to build the 1,375 wall — the same amount as last year, but substantially less than the $ 5,7 billion requested by the White House.

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Trump reluctantly agreed to accept the money so that put an end to 35-day government shutdown in February, but simultaneously declared a state of emergency to withdraw money allocated for other government needs.

“The cancellation of military projects in our country and abroad will undermine our national security, the quality of life and the fighting spirit of our troops, which will make America less secure,” said House Speaker Democrat Nancy Pelosi.

The government will spend money on housing for the military on 11 wall projects in California, Arizona, and Texas, according to documents filed by the administration in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACSA). The most expensive project is the construction of an 84 kilometer section of the city of Laredo in Texas worth 1,27 billion dollars.

The project in Laredo, and another in El Centro, California, is planned to be carried out on privately owned lands, which require their purchase or confiscation, the court documents said.

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The 280-kilometer section, which is planned to be built at the expense of funds allocated by the Pentagon, is just a small segment of the 3150-kilometer border of the United States and Mexico.

The head of the operations department of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lt. Gen. Andrew Poppas, told reporters that the construction of the wall would ultimately lead to a reduction in the number of troops deployed at the border.

At present, about 3 of thousands of active servicemen and 2 of thousands of members of the National Guard are deployed at the border to help internal security agencies and border patrols. Around 1200 troops are observing in mobile units.

The ACSG said on Tuesday that it would seek a court order prohibiting the transfer of Pentagon funds. Earlier, the organization challenged in court the transfer of funds from the Ministry of Defense intended for combating drugs, but the Supreme Court in July lifted the restriction on the use of this money.

“We will return to court very soon to block Trump’s new attempts to take money from the military and use it for his xenophobic wall,” said the ASGS lawyer Dror Ladin.

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