Builders of Trump’s wall on Mexico border hold crisis talks after Biden pledges to end construction
4 years ago

Builders of Trump’s wall on Mexico border hold crisis talks after Biden pledges to end construction

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Federal agencies building Donald Trump's partially-completed wall along the southern border with Mexico are said to be holding urgent meetings as they prepare for a stop-work order under a Joe Biden presidency. Quoting officials at the US Customs and Border Protection and the US Army Corps of Engineers, The Washington Post reports that both agencies acknowledge the wall will remain incomplete in areas that construction crews will be unable to finish before inauguration day on 20 January. “If terminated for convenience, the contractor is entitled to submit a request for termination settlement costs.” Mr Biden pledged during the campaign that his administration would end confiscation of land and construction of the wall once he's sworn in as president, but he stopped short of committing to tearing down parts already built. It is expected to complete an additional 30 miles, to the six already built, in the Rio Grande Valley by 20 January, inauguration day for the next president.“ "Since the US Border Patrol began constructing border barriers nearly 30 years ago, these barriers have proved to be a critical component in gaining operational control of the border and allowing for greater efficiency of manpower,” the statement said.

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'Sabotage': Texas A.G. Ken Paxton takes legal action to stop border wall part auctions
6 days, 8 hours ago

'Sabotage': Texas A.G. Ken Paxton takes legal action to stop border wall part auctions

Raw Story  

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton late Tuesday asked a federal judge to determine whether the Biden administration is violating a permanent injunction by selling off unused border wall parts. “If these reports are true, the Biden Administration is violating a federal court order.” Paxton wants U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton to first order a status conference at the court’s “earliest …

'Dumb': Republican melts down on Fox News as Biden sells off unused border wall parts
1 week ago

'Dumb': Republican melts down on Fox News as Biden sells off unused border wall parts

Raw Story  

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan became the latest MAGA lawmaker to call out President Joe Biden after reports surfaced that the administration sold off unused parts of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. “Let’s just add one more dumb thing that this administration has done – and remember this is all intentional, particularly when it comes to the border,” Jordan told Fox …

Irate GOP leaders say Biden's administration is selling off unused border wall materials
1 week, 4 days ago

Irate GOP leaders say Biden's administration is selling off unused border wall materials

Raw Story  

Republican lawmakers and allies on Thursday seized on a Senate report showing President Joe Biden's administration has auctioned off materials used to craft the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The conservative Daily Wire posted a video Thursday claiming, "Weeks before Trump takes office, Biden is racing to auction off unused border wall materials." "Video shows trucks hauling wall materials off the border …

Trump's $20M-per-mile border wall can be bypassed with simple power tools: report
3 weeks ago

Trump's $20M-per-mile border wall can be bypassed with simple power tools: report

Raw Story  

Immigrants seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border wall — which cost an estimated $20 million per mile to build — can wield simple power tools to saw their way through. During Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, his favorite slogan, "Build the wall," never came up. Instead of the wall, "Trump now wants a " bloody " mass deportation operation immediately removing …

What ever happened to the border wall Trump promised 8 years ago?
3 weeks ago

What ever happened to the border wall Trump promised 8 years ago?

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Even as Biden spoke openly about how he didn’t think walls worked, he told …

Biden’s ‘border order’ is the new version of Trump’s wall, but will it work?
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden’s ‘border order’ is the new version of Trump’s wall, but will it work?

The Independent  

As we are seeing so graphically in the UK, election campaigns can make for strange policy bedfellows – and the United States has suddenly thrown up a classic example. The argument will doubtless go on through the US election campaign, but Biden’s resort to what was described by one US commentator as the most restrictive border policy by a Democratic …

Biden issues rule allowing him to shut down US-Mexico border as immigration emerges as top voter concern
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden issues rule allowing him to shut down US-Mexico border as immigration emerges as top voter concern

The Independent  

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Biden and Trump arrive in Texas for clashing visit at US border
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden and Trump arrive in Texas for clashing visit at US border

The Telegraph  

Joe Biden has urged Donald Trump to help him pass his border security package, as his rival blamed him for the deaths of “countless innocent victims”. The president, speaking at the same time as Mr Trump on separate visits to the Texan southern border on Thursday, warned of the dangers of untrammelled illegal immigration and called on Republicans to “show …

Biden and Trump plan to make dueling trips to the U.S.-Mexico border
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Biden and Trump plan to make dueling trips to the U.S.-Mexico border

LA Times  

In this combination of photos, President Biden, left, speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former President Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J. President Biden and former President Trump will make dueling trips to the Mexican border in Texas on Thursday after congressional talks on a deal to rein in illegal migration collapsed, according …

Can Joe Biden 'shut down' the Texas border?
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Can Joe Biden 'shut down' the Texas border?

Hindustan Times  

President Joe Biden’s claim that he wants to have the power to “shut down” the border has raised some alarm among current and former officials at the Department of Homeland Security. He repeated this idea in a statement he released on Friday night, saying he would close the border if necessary “the day I sign the bill into law.” According …

President Biden has said he’d shut the US-Mexico border if given the ability. What does that mean?
10 months, 3 weeks ago

President Biden has said he’d shut the US-Mexico border if given the ability. What does that mean?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has made some strong claims over the past few days about shutting down the U.S.-Mexico border as he tries to salvage a border deal in Congress that would also unlock money for Ukraine. “It’ll also give me as president, the emergency authority to shut down the border until it could get back under control. But …

Biden offers fresh assurances he would shut down border ‘right now’ if Congress sends him a deal
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden offers fresh assurances he would shut down border ‘right now’ if Congress sends him a deal

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Bidding to salvage a border deal in Congress that also would unlock money for Ukraine, President Joe Biden offered fresh assurances Saturday night that he would be willing to close the U.S.-Mexico border if lawmakers would only send him a bill to sign. Biden — also eager to disarm GOP criticism of his handling of migration …

Joe Biden: I’d shut Mexican border ‘right now’ if Congress let me
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Joe Biden: I’d shut Mexican border ‘right now’ if Congress let me

The Telegraph  

Joe Biden has said he would close the US-Mexico border “right now” if Congress handed him the power by passing a sweeping immigration bill. Mr Biden’s plans, unveiled on Friday, would give the Department of Homeland Security the power to close the border if illegal crossings surpassed 4,000 in a day and order it to do so if the figure …

Biden administration to extend US border wall, begin Venezuela deportations
1 year, 2 months ago

Biden administration to extend US border wall, begin Venezuela deportations

Al Jazeera  

The government is under political pressure to stem the flow of people, as about 11 million immigrants are in the US without legal documentation. The administration of US President Joe Biden will resume deporting Venezuelan migrants, and add sections to the southern border wall, carrying forward a signature policy of former President Donald Trump. Washington’s announcement came on Thursday, two …

Joe Biden to build more US border wall using Trump-era funds
1 year, 2 months ago

Joe Biden to build more US border wall using Trump-era funds

India Today  

President Joe Biden's administration said on Thursday it will add sections to a border wall to stave off record migrant crossings from Mexico, carrying forward a signature policy of former President Donald Trump. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement that there was "no new Administration policy with respect to border walls. The White House in a statement …

Biden says he had to use Trump-era funds for the border wall. Asked if barriers work, he says ‘No’
1 year, 2 months ago

Biden says he had to use Trump-era funds for the border wall. Asked if barriers work, he says ‘No’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday defended his administration’s decision to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow for construction of roughly 20 miles of additional border wall, saying he had no choice but to use the Trump-era funding for the barrier to stop illegal migration from Mexico. “I can’t stop that.” Still, the waiving of federal …

U.S. presses for cooperation from Mexico on fentanyl, but results are mixed
1 year, 2 months ago

U.S. presses for cooperation from Mexico on fentanyl, but results are mixed

LA Times  

U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Alicia Bárcena walk together during a meeting on security at the National Palace in Mexico City on Oct. 5, 2023. Branding the scourge of fentanyl deaths the “top of the agenda,” America’s senior diplomat on Thursday implored Mexico to help stop the flow of the drug into the …

The Biden administration says it is using executive power to allow border wall construction in Texas
1 year, 2 months ago

The Biden administration says it is using executive power to allow border wall construction in Texas

Associated Press  

McALLEN, Texas — The Biden administration announced they waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction on Wednesday, marking the administration’s first use of sweeping executive power to pave the way for building more border barriers — a tactic used often during the Trump presidency. The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the U.S. …

US border wall construction damaged Native burial site: Government report
1 year, 3 months ago

US border wall construction damaged Native burial site: Government report

Al Jazeera  

New report has found that efforts to expedite construction came at expense of sensitive ecosystems, Indigenous sites. Barrier construction along the United States’ southern border has damaged sensitive ecosystems, public lands and Indigenous cultural sites, a report by a nonpartisan government research agency has found. “The construction harmed some cultural and natural resources, for example, by blasting at a tribal …

Trump's Border Wall Caused 'Significant' Harm: Report
1 year, 3 months ago

Trump's Border Wall Caused 'Significant' Harm: Report

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The construction of former President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border desecrated Indigenous cultural sites, hurt wildlife, destroyed vegetation, dried up key water resources, exacerbated the risk of flooding and triggered erosion that has left mountain slopes “unstable and at risk of collapse,” according to a new report. “This racist political stunt has been an ineffective …

Biden: US-Mexico border will be ‘chaotic for a while’
1 year, 7 months ago

Biden: US-Mexico border will be ‘chaotic for a while’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden predicted Tuesday that the U.S.-Mexico border would be “chaotic for a while” when pandemic-related restrictions end, as 550 active-duty troops began arriving and migrants weighed whether or when to cross. “It’s going to be chaotic for a while.” Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke for roughly an hour Tuesday to discuss the …

Biden administration to send 1,500 troops to US-Mexico border for expected migrant surge
1 year, 7 months ago

Biden administration to send 1,500 troops to US-Mexico border for expected migrant surge

The Independent  

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US will resume border wall construction at San Diego park
1 year, 11 months ago

US will resume border wall construction at San Diego park

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Biden administration agreed to …

Stacked shipping containers are no hindrance for migrants crossing the Arizona border
2 years, 3 months ago

Stacked shipping containers are no hindrance for migrants crossing the Arizona border

LA Times  

A migrant from Colombia holds his baby daughter after crossing into the United States near Yuma, Ariz., last week. Doug Ducey declared “a major step forward to secure our border” with the installation of 130 double-stacked shipping containers, hundreds of migrants found their way around them, belying his claim. Gary Restaino, the top federal prosecutor in Arizona, used a bilateral …

US to fill border wall gaps at open area near Yuma, Arizona
2 years, 4 months ago

US to fill border wall gaps at open area near Yuma, Arizona

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — The Biden administration on Thursday authorized completion of the Trump-funded U.S.-Mexico border wall in an open area of southern Arizona near Yuma that has become one of the busiest corridors for illegal crossings. The agency said in a statement that Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas authorized completion of the project near the Morelos Dam, reflecting the administration’s “priority to deploy …

Texas governor: State, crowdsourcing will fund border wall
3 years, 6 months ago

Texas governor: State, crowdsourcing will fund border wall

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Over a dozen Republican members of the Texas House and Senate joined Abbott for a livestreamed press conference announcing his intentions to hire a project manager to continue constructing some version of a wall announced last week, echoing former President Donald Trump’s unfinished campaign promise to fortify the southern U.S. border, of which 1,200 miles …

Biden to return diverted border wall money, spend down rest
3 years, 6 months ago

Biden to return diverted border wall money, spend down rest

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — 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 Biden administration plan announced Friday. Biden plans to return more than $2 billion that the Trump administration diverted from the Pentagon to help pay for the wall and use …

Military funds for Trump border wall to be cancelled
3 years, 7 months ago

Military funds for Trump border wall to be cancelled

Al Jazeera  

The Biden administration said it will also fix flooding and soil erosion caused by unfinished sections of the wall. The Pentagon on Friday said it was cancelling the construction of parts of former President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico that were being built using military funds, with the unused money being returned to the military. “The Department of Defense …

Biden's DHS head wants to prosecute MORE illegal immigrants
3 years, 8 months ago

Biden's DHS head wants to prosecute MORE illegal immigrants

Daily Mail  

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas wants to criminally prosecute more illegal immigrants and crack down on sanctuary cities Joe Biden's Homeland Security head is looking to crack down on illegal immigration by taking more legal action against border jumpers and targeting U.S. cities that act as a safe haven for them. The new hard-line stance comes as record numbers of …

Trump may visit border ‘soon’ but is waiting for Biden ‘to fail on his own’, aide says
3 years, 8 months ago

Trump may visit border ‘soon’ but is waiting for Biden ‘to fail on his own’, aide says

The Independent  

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Biden decree ends 'emergency' that Trump used to build wall
3 years, 10 months ago

Biden decree ends 'emergency' that Trump used to build wall

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President Joe Biden has officially ended the “national emergency” that …

Biden decree ends ‘emergency’ that Trump used to build wall
3 years, 10 months ago

Biden decree ends ‘emergency’ that Trump used to build wall

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — 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. In his letter, the president said Trump’s declaration of a national emergency had been “unwarranted” and that he had directed that “no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted …

Biden halts border wall building after Trump’s final surge
3 years, 11 months ago

Biden halts border wall building after Trump’s final surge

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — In the days before Joe Biden became president, construction crews worked quickly to finish Donald Trump’s wall at an iconic cross-border park overlooking the Pacific Ocean, which then-first lady Pat Nixon inaugurated in 1971 as a symbol of international friendship. The Army Corps of Engineers, which has awarded wall contracts with Defense Department money, said Thursday that …

Biden to reverse Trump travel ban, halt wall construction
3 years, 11 months ago

Biden to reverse Trump travel ban, halt wall construction

Live Mint  

President Joe Biden on Wednesday will begin reversing Donald Trump’s immigration policies, part of an aggressive push to roll back some of the most controversial actions of his predecessor and chart a new course for the nation. The travel ban and border wall were the fulfillments of Trump’s central 2016 campaign promises, to crack down on immigration and limit the …

Immigration: Biden halts border wall and travel ban
3 years, 11 months ago

Immigration: Biden halts border wall and travel ban

CNN  

CNN — President Joe Biden kicked off his term by signing out a series of immigration executive actions, moving swiftly to undo many Trump administration policies and ending the national emergency that diverted millions of dollars to the border wall. “But we’re going to need legislation for a lot of these we’re going to do.” That includes the administration’s immigration …

Biden announces end to Trump’s border wall project
3 years, 11 months ago

Biden announces end to Trump’s border wall project

LA Times  

The U.S. side of Playas de Tijuana, where the border wall fades into the Pacific Ocean. President Biden is immediately ending the national emergency that President Trump declared on the border in February 2018 to divert billions of dollars from the Defense Department to wall construction. Despite Trump’s repeated promises that Mexico would pay for the wall, U.S. Customs and …

Trump put migrants in border limbo. So far Biden has left them there
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump put migrants in border limbo. So far Biden has left them there

LA Times  

A new section of border wall constructed in a remote expanse of desert outside Yuma, Ariz., under the Trump administration. “What people don’t realize is that Title 42 is everything — it’s a complete closure of the border,” said Lee Gelernt of the American Civil Liberties Union, whose suit now faces the Biden administration. And yet when Biden comes in, …

Josh Hawley launches new attack on Joe Biden as he lodges objection on his Homeland Security pick
3 years, 11 months ago

Josh Hawley launches new attack on Joe Biden as he lodges objection on his Homeland Security pick

Daily Mail  

Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is blocking a move that would have provided speedy confirmation of Joe Biden's nominee to run the Homeland Security Department – after objecting to counting millions of votes that went to Biden. In a statement, Hawley invoked Trump's border wall, as well as a coming legislative proposal by the incoming Biden administration that would provide …

What is happening with US President Donald Trump's border wall, and what does president-elect Joe Biden intend to do?
3 years, 11 months ago

What is happening with US President Donald Trump's border wall, and what does president-elect Joe Biden intend to do?

ABC  

A centrepiece of US President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy was the construction of a "big, beautiful wall" on the US-Mexico border — and the promise that Mexico would pay for it. During his 2020 State of the Union address, Mr Trump said "substantially more than 500 miles" of the wall would be complete by early 2021. "Mexico is going …

Trump heads to Texas border in final days to showcase wall
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump heads to Texas border in final days to showcase wall

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Trump's visit — no doubt a symbol of …

Alamo, Texas: Trump visits his border wall on the heels of deadly Capitol Hill riot
3 years, 11 months ago

Alamo, Texas: Trump visits his border wall on the heels of deadly Capitol Hill riot

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump bookended his administration’s focus on immigration with a trip to his signature border wall on the US-Mexico border, a visit on the heels of a deadly riot on Capitol Hill incited by the President as House Democrats prepare a second impeachment vote. During a brief speech near the wall, Trump listed off a series of …

Donald Trump to make triumphant visit to US-Mexico border wall
3 years, 11 months ago

Donald Trump to make triumphant visit to US-Mexico border wall

The Independent  

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Biden is facing high hopes, tough choices on border wall
4 years ago

Biden is facing high hopes, tough choices on border wall

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We’re a little less naïve than last time,” …

Some big, early shifts on immigration expected under Biden
4 years, 1 month ago

Some big, early shifts on immigration expected under Biden

Hindustan Times  

Some dramatic moves on immigration are expected in the early days of the Biden administration. Joe Biden will likely use executive orders to reverse some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial actions, rolling back moves that were a central feature of his administration and important to his base. Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School, …

Death, debt, and degradation: Trump’s border wall after four years
4 years, 1 month ago

Death, debt, and degradation: Trump’s border wall after four years

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “For about the first year following Trump's inauguration, …

Donald Trump's border wall is 'desecrating' sacred Indigenous sites, tribal leaders say. Could the US election change this?
4 years, 1 month ago

Donald Trump's border wall is 'desecrating' sacred Indigenous sites, tribal leaders say. Could the US election change this?

ABC  

Depending on who you ask, the border that separates the US and Mexico is a symbol of defence or distress. She said Border Patrol agents had asked "inappropriate" questions of Indigenous people, including requests "to speak their language or sing or dance traditional songs" to verify their identity. US governments have been able to build border infrastructure easily along the …

Biden Would End Border Wall Construction, But Wouldn't Tear Down Trump's Additions
4 years, 4 months ago

Biden Would End Border Wall Construction, But Wouldn't Tear Down Trump's Additions

NPR  

Biden Would End Border Wall Construction, But Wouldn't Tear Down Trump's Additions Enlarge this image toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden says if elected, he would not tear down the parts of the barrier along the U.S. Southern border built during the Trump administration — but he would cease …

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