Oh, they just cry so bad. Muh levee! Kek.

The federal government calls it a levee. South Texas immigration advocates and environmentalists see a border wall.

Border wall opponents say President Joe Biden broke his promise to halt border wall construction when Homeland Security started building a wall and calling it a levee.

BY URIEL J. GARCÍA SEPT. 3, 20214 HOURS AGO

Mission Levee Phase II in Mission on Aug. 31, 2021.

Construction continues on what the federal government says is a levee improvement project in the Rio Grande Valley. Local immigrant advocates and environmentalists say it looks suspiciously like a border wall.

For weeks, construction crews have been working about half a mile north of the Rio Grande in Mission, erecting 15-foot concrete panels topped with 6-foot steel bollards.

The federal government describes the imposing structure as an upgrade to the levee system that protects Rio Grande Valley residents from potential flooding. The area previously had an earthen levee that lacked concrete and steel.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the structure “is part of [U.S. Department of Homeland Security] plans announced April 30 to reduce flooding risk to border communities in the Rio Grande Valley near McAllen, Texas. The levee repair work does not involve expanding the border barrier.”

But to immigrant advocates and environmentalists, what the Department of Homeland Security is building is clearly a border wall.

“It pretty much has the same symbolic look as the Trump wall,” said Roberto Lopez, a community organizer with the Texas Civil Rights Project, a nonprofit organization that advocates for migrants’ rights and other social justice issues.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/03/texas-border-wall-levee/amp/?