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Americans disapprove of Biden’s border policies, poll says

  • Americans now favor a border wall, according to the poll
  • Biden’s planned construction of a wall contradicts past statements
  • The administration says they have not changed their policy regarding a wall
President Joe Biden speaks about the September jobs report, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in Washington. Biden says that he could potentially meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday that a meeting has not yet been set up “but it is a possibility.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Joe Biden speaks about the September jobs report, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in Washington. Biden says that he could potentially meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday that a meeting has not yet been set up “but it is a possibility.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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(NewsNation) — A Fox News poll has found that the majority of Americans do not approve of President Joe Biden’s policies regarding the U.S.-Mexico border.

Seventy-one percent of registered voters said security at the southern border is not strict enough.

Contrary to past polling, most Americans now favor the construction of a border wall. Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed said they were in favor of building a wall. Among independents, that number was 53 percent.

Biden recently angered progressives after continuing with former President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall. Biden, who has claimed they are ineffective, said that because the money was allocated for that purpose during Trump’s term in 2019 it had to be spent now.

One of Biden’s first actions after taking office in January 2021 was to issue a proclamation pledging that “no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall” as well as a review of all resources that had already been committed.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement that there was “no new Administration policy with respect to border walls. From day one, this Administration has made clear that a border wall is not the answer.”

Mayorkas said the construction project was appropriated during the prior administration and the law requires the government to use the funds, with an announcement made earlier in the year. “We have repeatedly asked Congress to rescind this money but it has not done so and we are compelled to follow the law,” he said.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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