Will immediately halt construction of the border wall

Cuellar serves on the House Appropriations Committee and has worked there to hinder Trump's budget maneuvers that have syphoned billions from military spending to build the wall when Congress would not approve the massive spending outright.

Biden, who was declared the winner of the presidential election by most major media outlets over the weekend, vowed during his campaign to stop the border wall project.

The wall was one of Trump's biggest campaign promises in 2016, as supporters would famously chant, 'Build the wall,' at his rallies – and still do to this day.

Trump vowed to create an unscalable wall that would span from the eastern most part of the U.S. to the western-most and stop the flow of illegal immigration, drug trafficking and crime from coming over the border from Mexico.

The president's supporters view the wall as not only an actual deterrent and barrier to smuggling and illegal border crossing, but also a symbol that illegal immigrants are not welcome as the U.S. tightens security.

Immigration advocates have criticized the move calling it an affront on immigrants.

'The wall came up after Trump came in. I think they will lose their appetite to fight for the wall,' Cuellar said of the president's supporters both in and outside of government.

He says that he sees little will from politicians on the right to push ahead with it once Trump leaves office.

While only 12 miles of the border wall Trump constructed have added onto the length of existing barriers, the rest of the hundreds of miles of new construction have upgraded or even completely replaced shorter or less sturdy fencing.

In some areas, it even provides a second layer of wall meant to slow illegal crossers, smugglers and human traffickers long enough for Customs and Border Patrol agents to respond to the area.

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