Border wall

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott authorized a $250 million “down payment” for a wall along the border with Mexico, saying he is continuing work from the Trump administration. But it’s not clear whether Abbott has the authority to do so or how much the final project would cost if completed, says reporter James Barragán from The Texas Tribune.

Former President Donald Trump’s signature border wall project would lose much of its funding as well as the fast-track status that enabled it to bypass environmental regulations under a new Biden administration plan

The issue with migrants aside for a moment, the border wall is also reeking untold damage on the environment

You’ve likely heard about the U.S.-Mexico “border crisis” in the context of migrants. You may not have heard about the urgent environmental crisis that activists say has been triggered by the wall itself.

President Joe Biden has officially ended the “national emergency” that President Donald Trump declared in order to take money from the Pentagon to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border

With the sweeping stroke of a pen President Joe Biden moved quickly to dismantle former President Trump’s legacy on his first day in office, signing a series of executive actions that reverse course on immigration, climate change, racial equity and the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump is expected to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday to highlight his administration’s work on the border wall, the White House said Saturday.

President-elect Joe Biden will face immediate pressure to fulfill his pledge to stop border wall construction.

The chairwoman for the Native American tribe Hia C-ed O’odham, which means Sand People, shares her story about how the Trump administration’s border wall has hurt her community. Chairwoman Christina Andrews said construction has already destroyed a children’s shrine and sacred trails.

Fátima Garza is a college student and activist fighting against construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall. If construction goes as planned, it will cut through homes in Los Ebanos, a small border town in Texas where most of Garza’s family lives. For Garza and other residents, the wall is more than a distant talking point; it’s in their backyard....

Former Trump campaign CEO and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was indicted in New York on fraud charges related to a fundraising campaign to build a border wall, federal prosecutors said. Bannon is among four people indicted for allegedly defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors to the online “We Build the Wall” campaign. Manhattan federal prosecutors and the...

A California tribe whose ancestral lands span across the U.S.-Mexico border is suing the Trump administration to block construction of a section of border wall that the Kumeyaay people say is desecrating sacred burial sites.

The Supreme Court has declined by a 5-4 vote to halt the Trump administration’s construction of portions of the border wall with Mexico following a recent lower court ruling that the administration improperly diverted money to the project

President Donald Trump has criticized a privately built border wall in South Texas that’s showing signs of erosion months after going up, saying in a tweet that he thinks it was “only done to make me look bad,” even though it was built after a months-long campaign by his supporters.

President Donald Trump has made building some 450 miles of wall on the U.S.-Mexico border a defining issue of his presidency, and vowed that Mexico would pay for it.

A federal judge has ordered the release of children held with their parents in U.S. immigration jails and denounced the Trump administration’s prolonged detention of families during the coronavirus pandemic

The Trump administration does not have the authority to use military funding to pay for construction of a border wall, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday, NBC News reported. In a 2-1 ruling, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that diverting $2.5 billion Congress had appropriated for the military violated the Constitution and is unlawful….

The Trump administration is waiving federal contracting laws to speed construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall, moving the president closer to fulfilling a signature campaign promise in an election year but sparking criticism about potential for fraud, waste and abuse

The Tohono O’odham Nation, a Native American tribe in southern Arizona opposed to building a border wall that could imperil wildlife and artifacts in the area’s fragile landscape, is accusing the Defense Department of failing to consult with it in line with federal requirements.

The Pentagon is slashing $3.8 billion in recently passed military funding to finance construction of the president’s long-sought U.S.-Mexico border wall