After being told for all of his three years in office that walls along the U.S.-Mexico border are not effective, officials have put up a wall around the Capitol Building ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address on Thursday.
“The eight-foot black Capitol wall, approved by the Capitol Police Board, could be more heavily guarded on Thursday by law enforcement than the southern border where 1.7 million known ‘gotaways’ escaped into the United States under Biden,” Breitbart News reported, adding exclusive photos.
The Capitol Police have declared Biden’s State of the Union address as a designated National Special Security Event, necessitating a “robust” security strategy in collaboration with the Secret Service. This plan entails a substantial law enforcement presence along with the installation of a protective barrier to safeguard the Capitol Building from potential breaches.
“Democrats are happy to spend taxpayer money on building a wall to secure Biden and other D.C. elites, but they refuse to continue funding for Trump’s border wall that was being built to keep the American people safe,” Alex Bruesewitz of X Strategies exclusively told Breitbart News.
“At least they concede that walls work,” he added.
Breitbart added that the protective barrier would encircle the 175,000-square-foot Capitol grounds complex for five days following Biden’s speech.
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“It’s disappointing to be reminded that our elected officials are only ever interested and urgent about putting up walls when it’s to protect themselves,” Vish Burra, a conservative insider and president of Basilisk, told Breitbart News.
“The American People are screaming for a border wall to protect our country, and these same elected officials either pretend like they can’t hear those screams or even worse, they genuinely don’t care to heed those concerns,” Burra added.
“Biden won’t protect Americans from unvetted, violent migrants, but he’ll build a fortress around the Capitol grounds to keep out Americans?” questioned founder and president of the pro-Trump Article III Project Mike Davis, the outlet noted.
Even far-left non-voting Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents the District of Columbia, said the wall was unnecessary.
“Already, the distance between government and the people has grown, with trust in government at historic lows,” she told CBS News. “We should not entrench that distance further by placing intimidating barriers between ourselves as public servants and the people we serve, especially when such barriers are neither effective nor necessary.”
