The Biden administration is allocating $1 billion in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to make dozens of federal ports of entry along the U.S. northern and southern borders more environmentally friendly.
However, Republicans and experts criticized this move as failing to address the ongoing border crisis.
The funding will support projects to reduce emissions at border facilities through measures like solar installations and electric vehicle infrastructure.
“As usual, the Biden administration is refusing to address a problem of their own making,” House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman said. “Instead, they’re touting a billion-dollar investment in green technology at the border while Biden’s border crisis continues to wreak havoc on local communities and federal lands. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.”
“Time and time again, the House Committee on Natural Resources has spotlighted these issues and recently held a field hearing in one of the hardest-hit areas of southern Arizona, yet this administration refuses to address the crisis they’ve created,” he added.
Critics argue the administration is neglecting the crisis caused by uncontrolled illegal immigration, which strains local communities and damages sensitive lands and wildlife habitats along smuggling routes.
“Spending a billion dollars to build a so-called ‘environmentally friendly’ port of entry feels like a slap in the face to Americans watching our open border policies trash our beautiful public lands day in and day out,” Westerman said.
They contend the administration’s lax border policies will increase the nation’s carbon footprint through population growth circumventing immigration laws, conflicting with climate goals.
As record numbers of migrants continue to cross the border illegally each month, Republicans view the climate spending as ignoring the more pressing issues created by the administration’s own border policies.
“The Biden Administration has made it abundantly clear that it will take no effective action to stop the flow of illegal immigration into the United States, only attempt to process faster the intake of inadmissible aliens,” NumbersUSA CEO James Massa said.
“The long-term effects of the administration’s clear aim of adding as many people to the U.S. population by circumventing immigration restrictions put in place by Congress means that our nation’s carbon footprint will increase markedly, which is at odds with President Biden’s stated goal,” he added.
“In addition to endangering those millions of people by encouraging them to travel at the hands of cartels, these journeys across Central America to the U.S. southern border are devastating to croplands and wildlife habitat along the way,” Massa said.
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