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   McALLEN, Texas — The Biden administration’s plan to build new barriers   
   along the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas calls for a “movable” design   
   that frustrates both environmentalists and advocates of stronger border   
   enforcement.   
      
   The plans for the nearly 20 miles of new barrier in Starr County were   
   made public in September when the federal government sought public   
   input. The following month, the administration waived 26 federal laws   
   protecting the environment and certain species to speed up the   
   construction process.   
      
   “The United States Border Patrol did not ask for this downgraded border   
   wall,” Rodney Scott, a former U.S. Border Patrol chief said.   
      
   Construction is moving forward despite President Joe Biden’s campaign   
   promise not to build more wall and amid an increase in migrants coming   
   to the nation’s southern border from across Latin America and other   
   parts of the world to seek asylum. Illegal crossings topped 2 million   
   for the second year in a row for the government’s budget year that ended   
   Sept. 30.   
      
   Biden says border wall doesn’t work   
      
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   People such as Scott who want more border security believe the barriers   
   won’t be strong enough to stop people from crossing illegally.   
   Environmentalists, meanwhile, say the design actually poses a greater   
   risk to animal habitat than former President Donald Trump’s border wall.   
      
   Biden has defended the administration’s decision by saying he had to use   
   the Trump-era funding for it. The law requires the funding for the new   
   barriers to be used as approved and for the construction to be completed   
   in 2023.   
      
   Most barriers on the border were erected in the last 20 years under   
   Trump and former President George W. Bush. Those sections of border wall   
   include Normandy-style fencing that resembles big X’s and bollard-style   
   fencing made of upright steel posts.   
      
   Biden’s barrier will be much shorter than the 18- to 30-foot   
   concrete-filled steel bollard panels of Trump’s wall. It also could be   
   temporary.   
      
   An example of the style of barrier his administration will use can be   
   seen in Brownsville, about 100 miles southeast of Starr County. Metal   
   bollards embedded into 4-foot-high cement blocks that taper toward the   
   top sit along the southern part of a neighborhood not far from the   
   curving Rio Grande.   
      
   Over the last year, the Rio Grande Valley region was the fourth-busiest   
   area for the number of people crossing into the U.S. illegally, though   
   it was the busiest in previous years.   
      
   With the design planned for Starr County, federal border agents will be   
   able to move around the fencing, said Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry   
   Cuellar, who represents Starr County. “So it’s one of those things where   
   if they want to direct traffic, they can move it.”   
      
   Scott agreed that the “moveable” fences can be used as an emergency   
   stopgap measure to block off access in some areas. But he warned that if   
   the fencing isn’t placed far enough into the ground, someone might be   
   able to use a vehicle to shove it out of the way, provided they don’t   
   mind damaging the vehicle.   
      
   Laiken Jordahl, a conservation advocate with the Center for Biological   
   Diversity, said mountain lions, bobcats, javelinas, coyotes, white-tail   
   deer, armadillos, jack rabbits, ground squirrels, and two endangered,   
   federally protected plants — Zapata bladderpod and prostrate milkweed —   
   may be affected.   
      
   Jordahl said the design the Biden administration is using “will block   
   even the smallest species of animals from passing through the barrier.”   
      
   “The one advantage for making it shorter is, I guess if somebody falls   
   while they’re climbing over it, they aren’t falling as far,” Scott   
   Nicol, a board member of the Friends of the Wildlife Corridor, said.   
      
   Nicol, who lives in the Rio Grande Valley, is familiar with the type of   
   barriers Biden’s administration will use, the terrain, and the weather   
   in Starr County. He is concerned about unintended consequences,   
   particularly on the Rio Grande that separates U.S. and Mexico.   
      
      
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