Fire Sale! Biden Auctions Off Critical Infrastructure Trump Needs, Sticks Americans with the Bill

As President Joe Biden prepares to leave office, his approach to border security remains consistent with how he started: “Everything must go.”

A video obtained by the Daily Wire has gone viral, showing sections of the border wall being hauled away, reportedly to be sold. The footage, filmed by a Customs and Border Patrol agent who spoke anonymously, reveals the scale of the operation.

“They are taking it from three stations: Nogales, Tucson, and Three Points,” the agent told the Daily Wire. “The goal is to move all of it off the border before Christmas.”

According to the Daily Wire report, this effort appears aimed at obstructing President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to rebuild the border wall. The materials are being removed from areas that have been “hotspots for illegal crossings during the Biden administration,” the outlet noted.

This isn’t the first time the Biden administration has taken such action. In October 2023, Newsweek reported a similar sale of border-wall materials, just before construction of a 20-mile stretch of the wall was approved.

“Listings on GovPlanet, an auction site for state, local, and federal agencies to sell surplus inventory, show it has been selling off lots of square iron and steel wall tubing for tens of thousands of dollars as recently as Wednesday,” Newsweek stated. “On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security approved the construction of the new border wall along the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.”

Meanwhile, the border crisis has reached historic proportions. In May, the House Committee on Homeland Security estimated that Border Patrol would encounter 10 million illegal immigrants at the southern border under the Biden administration by the end of the fiscal year.

“It is clear that the Biden administration has used unlawful mass-parole programs to shift hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens to ports of entry for release into the interior, often with little or no vetting,” GOP committee members said in a statement. “The end result is the same—a continuing, historic border crisis.”

Now, the administration appears to be clearing out unassembled wall sections just before Trump, who has vowed to complete the project, takes office.

“They just started taking all the wall that was not used, which is still totally good and usable, and they started taking it northbound,” the Border Patrol agent revealed. “They’re pulling it all off the border.”

Listings on GovPlanet confirm that sales of steel wall materials occurred as recently as Dec. 4, with additional auctions scheduled from Dec. 11 to Dec. 18 for items described as “32.91’ X 7.91’ Steel Bollard Wall Sections w/Grout.”

Adding a controversial twist, leftist activist Brian Krassenstein claimed he had purchased some of the materials to repurpose them. “I’m proud to announce that I just bought $155 in border wall,” Krassenstein wrote in a post. “I will construct a massive, extravagant ‘Welcome to the United States’ sign, complete with bright lights, multilingual greetings, and a tourist information booth.”

Skepticism toward Krassenstein’s claim may be warranted, but the fact remains that the Biden administration’s actions align with its approach to border security throughout his presidency.

From the beginning, the administration downplayed the issue of illegal immigration. At his first press briefing in March 2021, Biden attributed the surge at the border to “a significant increase in the number of people coming to the border in the winter months of January, February, March.”

With ten million encounters later, that explanation rings hollow.

As his term ends, Biden’s approach to the border remains unchanged: Everything must go—even if it takes a clearance sale. Mission accomplished, Mr. President.