Chaos in Biden's stop-work order on border: 'We just built roads for the cartels'

 President Biden’s decision to stop border wall construction forced crews to put down tools and walk away in the middle of work — and left the border less secure than ever in some places, according to an Arizona sheriff whose county covers 83 miles of the boundary. There are locations where contractors had built the high-speed roads that are part of the border wall system, and which Border Patrol agents are able to use to patrol the new barrier. But when the stop-work order came down, they had not built the actual wall yet. The result: a smugglers’ roadway, where the cartels who control the human traffic across the border are able to use those roads to get people deeper into the U.S., said Sheriff Mark Dannels, in Cochise County, Arizona. “We just built roads for the cartels,” he said. The wall stoppage is just one of a number of early moves the Biden team has made that are creating new headaches for sheriffs along the border, who are now preparing for a massive surge of new migrants amid the coronavirus pandemic...Within days of Mr. Biden’s order, all wall work had stopped, with the exception of a few instances where construction had left dangerous situations and materials needed to be tied down and dangerous holes covered. Sheriff Dannels said that’s created security gaps. “One area that’s wide open right now, we’re getting five to six groups a day,” he said. “It’s almost worse than it was before. We just built them infrastructure.” Mr. Biden, who as a senator voted for hundreds of miles of border fencing and as vice president in the Obama administration oversaw construction of fencing, now says it doesn’t work...MORE