Well, well, well—look who just got caught red-handed. The Biden administration has been quietly auctioning off unused border wall materials like it’s a Saturday yard sale, and it took Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stepping in with a legal crowbar to stop them. Now, Biden’s team is being forced to hit the brakes and preserve those materials for President-elect Trump, who’s already vowed to finish the job Biden so gleefully abandoned.
Let’s rewind the tape for a second. When Biden took office in 2021, one of his first acts was to slam the brakes on Trump’s border wall construction. Never mind the billions already spent or the steel and concrete already bought and paid for by American taxpayers. Nope, the materials just sat there—rusting, gathering dust, and, in some cases, getting auctioned off for pennies on the dollar through websites like GovPlanet.
You can’t make this up. Between April and August of last year, they managed to offload 81 structural steel tubes for a profit of around $2 million. Another batch of over 700 beams—28 feet tall, mind you—went for just $212 each. Folks, that’s not just wasteful; it’s practically criminal.
But now, thanks to Ken Paxton and the Texas legal machine, the auction is over. The court order halts any further sales of these materials, preserving them for the incoming Trump administration. Paxton was crystal clear: “We have successfully blocked the Biden Administration from disposing of any further border wall materials before President Trump takes office.”
And let’s not sugarcoat what was happening here. This wasn’t just bureaucratic bungling or oversight—it was sabotage. The Biden administration knew full well that Trump had every intention of resuming construction come January 20, and instead of leaving the materials intact, they started selling them off like spare parts at a scrapyard. Trump himself called it “almost a criminal act.” He’s not wrong.
Because while Biden was busy holding border wall garage sales, the southern border has become a disaster zone. Millions of illegal crossings, cartel dominance, human trafficking, fentanyl flooding American cities—it’s chaos. Texas has been left holding the bag, with Governor Greg Abbott essentially running his own shadow immigration enforcement policy just to keep the state from being completely overrun.
But here’s the good news: Trump’s plan to tackle this crisis is already taking shape. Enter Tom Homan, Trump’s incoming “border czar”. If you don’t know Homan, let me introduce you: he’s a no-nonsense former ICE director who oversaw some of the toughest immigration enforcement policies in modern U.S. history. And he’s made it clear that under Trump 2.0, “if you come to the country illegally, you’re not off the table.”
Homan is talking about using every tool in the arsenal—deploying the U.S. Army if necessary—to round up and deport illegal immigrants who pose a threat to national security. He’s also planning to revive Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which was one of the most effective deterrents against illegal crossings during Trump’s first term.
And no, before the pearl-clutchers start hyperventilating, there won’t be “concentration camps” or dystopian internment facilities. Homan has already dismissed that nonsense. What he is exploring are third-country processing arrangements—similar to the Rwanda scheme Britain considered—to handle asylum claims outside U.S. borders.
Let’s not mince words: Biden’s border policy has been a catastrophe. It’s not just an immigration crisis—it’s a humanitarian disaster, a public safety nightmare, and a fentanyl-fueled tragedy. And now, to top it all off, we find out that instead of trying to fix the problem—or at least preserve the materials needed for someone else to fix it—the Biden team has been selling them off like surplus office chairs.
This wasn’t just incompetence; it was deliberate. And that’s what makes this so infuriating.
Trump has already made it clear: the border wall is coming back. The materials that Biden’s team tried to pawn off will now be used for their intended purpose—to secure the border. Homan will lead the charge, bringing back policies that worked and implementing new strategies to address the unprecedented challenges created by the Biden administration’s negligence.
But let’s not forget who stopped the bleeding here—Ken Paxton. Say what you will about him, but Texas has been one of the last lines of defense against Biden’s border catastrophe. If Paxton hadn’t stepped in, there’s no telling how much more material would’ve been auctioned off into oblivion.
