US heads to court to build Trump border wall in Texas
Three years into Donald Trump's presidency, the U.S. government is ramping up its efforts to seize private land in Texas to build a border wall.
Pentagon watchdog investigating $400 million border wall contract
President Trump campaigned on a promise to build a “big beautiful wall” between the U.S. and Mexico," said Mexico would pay for it.
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Trump’s border wall threatens an Arizona oasis with a long, diverse history
Many observers fear that the 30-foot border wall with nighttime floodlighting will harm wildlife, lower the water table and destroy archaeological treasures. Crowds are visiting the site to protest the concrete and steel barrier.
In a letter dated Wednesday, Congressman Bennie Thompson raised concern about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decision to award the contract for the wall to Fisher Sand and Gravel. Thompson wrote that prior to Monday, the company had not…
State District Judge Keno Vasquez on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order against We Build the Wall, which raised $25 million after promising to build its own private barrier.
A sense of optimism in the aftermath of a July budget and debt deal has yielded to pessimism now, and the poisonous political fallout from the ongoing impeachment battle isn't helping matters.
Most of the projects involve replacing old barriers or adding secondary fencing rather than creating entirely new barriers.
Trump is expected to veto the bill that would block him from using the budget for construction projects on military bases to pay for his border wall.
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