Border Wall construction continuing defying Biden's executive order

[douglas9]

Border wall construction is continuing on the Arizona border, even though President Biden issued an executive order for it to halt on his first day in office.

Border wall contractors continued the destruction of blasting mountains and destroying critical habitat of endangered species this week after President Biden ordered it halted.

The destruction is documented in three areas on the Arizona border, including at Organ Pipe National Monument, where the battle has been ongoing to protect the sacred springs.

Already, Tohono Oodham burial places were blown up with dynamite at Monument Hill for border wall construction.

Now, a construction worker near Lukevilke said there is no indication that they are going to stop work

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2021/01/border-wall-construction-continuing.html

[Kittycow]

1. I wonder how they'll be forced to stop?

They're being extremely destructive of previously protected areas.

[GoCubsGo]

6. By cutting off their money,.

They're not going to work for nothing or pay for their own materials.

[634-5789]

2. I can't find this on any other MSM site

anywhere, so I am questioning this.

[exoskeleton]

3. Stop the money

It has always got my attention

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Federal Court -- Get a Restraining Order?

[FBaggins]

5. They aren't "defying" anything

The author clearly hasn’t read the order. It wasn’t an order to construction companies to cease all activity instantaneously and go home... nor is it likely that a president could do that outside of a different type of emergency.

[brush]

7. What did the order say to stop?

[FBaggins]

15. He didn't order anything at all stopped

He ordered the relevant federal agencies to review existing law/regulations and take any legal action to pause construction where they can.

[KentuckyWoman]

19. This

[honest.abe]

10. Here's part of the text from the eo...

pause work on each construction project on the southern border wall, to the extent permitted by law, as soon as possible but in no case later than seven days from the date of this proclamation

Seems they could be defying the order unless there are legal contractual issues involved.

[Kaleva]

11. "to the extent permitted by law" is key as there are contracts involved.

[FBaggins]

14. And more than contracts

Some of the construction is arguably by executive fiat in opposition to what congress intended or authorized. But congress did fund some construction and the president signed those bills into law. Unless they were all written in a way that gives him discretion in execution, a new president would not have the authority to undo it by executive order

[UCmeNdc]

8. Congress stop paying the checks to the contractors.

[Fresh_Start]

9. Explain no additional invoices will be paid and they will be billed to restore

the location to its prior condition.

[Kaleva]

12. How can one do that to a company doing the work they were contracted to do?

I think you are advocating the suspension of laws and punishing those, by billing, who were following the legal contract they signed.

[Turin_C3PO]

16. It's probably

going to end up that construction will stop but the contracts would still have to be paid out.

[Kaleva]

17. I agree.

[samnsara]

13. no pay after the prez said to stop......

[Kaleva]

18. Prez doesn't have authority to break contracts.

We just got rid of Trump. No reason to continue his methods.