border wall

Judge halts border wall construction in Texas' Big Bend region for now

By Rebecca Santana, Associated Press

Trump administration begins building border wall in Big Bend region of Texas

The start of construction marks an important milestone in the administration's $46 billion plan to line the border with walls, barriers, roads and technology as it seeks to make good on a key campaign promise by Trump to finish the…

By Rebecca Santana, Associated Press

Texas landowners ask courts to block Trump's Big Bend border wall plans

Landowners, ranchers, and business owners in Texas are suing to stop the Trump administration's border wall plans in the Big Bend region.

By Rebecca Santana, Associated Press

U.S. Marines place concertina wire to assist with border security mission

Trump administration can bypass environmental rules to build more border walls under this waiver

Environmentalists decried the move that will forego dozens of laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires federal agencies to evaluate the effects of their actions on the environment.

By Associated Press

A general view shows the wall on the United States and Mexico border, as seen from Sunland Park

News Wrap: Biden administration clears way for new border wall construction in Texas

In our news wrap Thursday, the Biden administration cleared the way to allow 20 miles of border wall construction in Texas, the U.S. will resume deporting people to Venezuela if they enter the country illegally and a panel of federal…

WATCH: White House holds briefing as Biden waives laws to allow border wall in Texas

By Colleen Long, Associated Press

The Department of Homeland Security announced that the Biden administration leveraged sweeping executive power to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas.

Congressional watchdog describes environmental harm of the border wall

By Anita Snow, Associated Press

The report by the GAO released Thursday offers an independent assessment of damage caused by the building of the wall while in-depth environmental reviews were waived and the concerns of Native American tribes went largely ignored.

Arizona's governor stacks shipping containers on Mexico border at the end of his term

By Anita Snow, Ross D. Franklin, Associated Press

Work crews have steadily erected hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers topped by razor wire along Arizona’s remote eastern boundary with Mexico in a bold show of border enforcement by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey even as he prepares to leave office.

Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to laundering money donated to build border wall

By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump's longtime ally Steve Bannon has pleaded not guilty to New York state charges of duping donors who gave money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Arizona plans to use shipping containers to fill border wall gaps

The move by Arizona comes without explicit permission on federal land, with state contractors starting to move in 60-foot-long shipping containers and stacking two of the 9-foot-tall containers on top of each other early Friday.