The government calls it a levee. Immigration advocates and environmentalists see a border wall.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "If DHS is building it, then it is an extension of the border wall."
50% : In a June statement announcing the start of the levee project, Homeland Security said, "These activities support the Administration policy to protect national and border security and address the humanitarian challenges at the southern border while remaining consistent with President Biden's commitment" not to continue expanding border barriers.
49% : "Despite what administration officials want us to believe, border wall construction continues in South Texas," said Eduardo Martinez, a member of the Rio Grande Valley No Border Wall Coalition.
48% : "I think that they're taking this opportunity to continue putting up the border wall that everybody who's been calling for one wants," Lopez said.
47% : But to immigrant advocates and environmentalists, what the Department of Homeland Security is building is clearly a border wall.
44% : "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.
38% : Lopez and other wall opponents see the structure as a broken promise by Biden, who on his first day in office said "no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall."
36% : In other parts of the Valley, sections of the border wall constructed during former President Donald Trump's administration -- which built 21 miles of new barrier along the Texas-Mexico border -- are also concrete topped by steel bollards.
27% : In early May, Hidalgo County officials said contractors would repair levees that were damaged during border wall construction under the Trump administration.

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