The Trump administration spent millions on border wall contracts to build on land it doesn't own
4 years, 2 months ago

The Trump administration spent millions on border wall contracts to build on land it doesn't own

Salon  

LA GRULLA, Texas — The federal government said it needed Ociel Mendoza's land on the outskirts of this tiny Texas town — and it couldn't wait any longer. Federal judges hearing CBP's eminent domain cases in South Texas also have expressed frustration with the government's legal argument for immediate possession in Starr County. Under the Bush and Obama administrations, several border wall fence projects, also awarded before the government obtained the land, died because the agency couldn't get them built before funding dried up. For more than a decade, residents and county officials have resisted the agency's push to build a border wall in Starr County, which the government has said in court filings is the No.

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

Trump weighs in on NY mayor, vaccines and drones in freewheeling press conference at Mar-a-Lago
3 months, 1 week ago

Trump weighs in on NY mayor, vaccines and drones in freewheeling press conference at Mar-a-Lago

Associated Press  

PALM BEACH, Fla. — In a freewheeling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, declared the country was “not going to lose” the polio vaccine and weighed in on the flurry of drone sightings over New Jersey. “I’m asking today, Joe Biden, to please stop selling …

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

Trump Picked Worst Possible Spot For New Border Wall Stunt
7 months ago

Trump Picked Worst Possible Spot For New Border Wall Stunt

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Donald Trump boasted of building the “Rolls-Royce” of walls during a visit to a segment of border barrier in Montezuma Pass, Arizona, last week. The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the portion where Trump spoke was built under the Obama administration, the Post added. Trump in 2016 repeatedly vowed to build a “big beautiful wall” across …

At half a mile a week, Texas border wall will take around 30 years and $20 billion to build
8 months, 3 weeks ago

At half a mile a week, Texas border wall will take around 30 years and $20 billion to build

Associated Press  

Three years after Gov. The state’s ability to secure land rights has also dictated the wall’s location, though officials say they have focused on areas pinpointed by the Department of Public Safety as the “highest priority.” TFC officials have declined to share exactly where the wall is being built, citing security concerns, though Novak recently said construction was underway on …

At half a mile a week, Abbott’s border wall will take around 30 years and $20 billion
8 months, 3 weeks ago

At half a mile a week, Abbott’s border wall will take around 30 years and $20 billion

Raw Story  

"At half a mile a week, Gov. The state’s ability to secure land rights has also dictated the wall’s location, though officials say they have focused on areas pinpointed by the Department of Public Safety as the “highest priority.” TFC officials have declined to share exactly where the wall is being built, citing security concerns, though Novak recently said construction …

Opinion: Playing ball on border bill comes back to bite Democrats
1 year, 1 month ago

Opinion: Playing ball on border bill comes back to bite Democrats

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Danielle Campoamor is a freelance writer formerly of TODAY and NBC. Trump has continuously lambasted the legislation, claiming on his makeshift social media platform Truth Social that “only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill.” His sycophantic followers in the House and the Senate have, of course, followed suit, with Republicans …

Biden’s movable wall is criticized by environmentalists and those who want more border security
1 year, 4 months ago

Biden’s movable wall is criticized by environmentalists and those who want more border security

Associated Press  

McALLEN, Texas — The Biden administration’s plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas calls for a “movable” design that frustrates both environmentalists and advocates of stronger border enforcement. Jordahl said the design the Biden administration is using “will block even the smallest species of animals from passing through the barrier.” “The one advantage for making …

AOC slams Biden for ‘cruel’ continuation of border wall construction
1 year, 5 months ago

AOC slams Biden for ‘cruel’ continuation of border wall construction

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 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released a scathing statement in response to …

Joe Biden to build more US border wall using Trump-era funds
1 year, 5 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, 5 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 …

The Biden administration says it is using executive power to allow border wall construction in Texas
1 year, 5 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. …

Trump's Border Wall Caused 'Significant' Harm: Report
1 year, 6 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 …

Fact-checker zings Trump for his Waco flub contradicting himself in the same speech
2 years ago

Fact-checker zings Trump for his Waco flub contradicting himself in the same speech

Raw Story  

Among the many lies that Donald Trump told during his Saturday rally in Waco, Texas, was his ongoing claim that he kept his promise to build a wall on the southern border and force Mexico to pay for it. CNN's Daniel Dale listed off a few of the lies that Trump told his Texas audience, but the main one was …

US will resume border wall construction at San Diego park
2 years, 2 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 …

Mexican smugglers have sawed through chunks of Trump's border wall 3,272 times in three years
3 years ago

Mexican smugglers have sawed through chunks of Trump's border wall 3,272 times in three years

Daily Mail  

U.S. Customs and Border Protection maintenance logs reveal how criminal organizations have sawed off blocks of the Trump-era Southern border wall thousands of times to smuggle migrants from Mexico into the United States over the last three years. Smuggling gangs took to cheap power tools to detach the bottom end of the beams from the ground, leaving the top part …

Border agency authorized to clean up wall construction sites
3 years, 3 months ago

Border agency authorized to clean up wall construction sites

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been authorized to start cleaning up construction sites and close small gaps in the southern border wall nearly a year after President Joe Biden took office and ordered building to stop. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement this week that wall building projects begun by the Defense Department within …

Trump's Arizona gubernatorial candidate says she’ll build 'the wall' on land the state doesn’t even own
3 years, 3 months ago

Trump's Arizona gubernatorial candidate says she’ll build 'the wall' on land the state doesn’t even own

Raw Story  

Former television news host Kari Lake, a Republican gubernatorial candidate for Arizona, announced that she fully intends to build "the wall" along with Mexico border with Arizona steel. As the policy counsel at the American Immigration Council explained, Arizona doesn't have much land left where they can build the so-called wall. "Nearly all of the land which isn't federally owned …

The destructive legacy of Trump’s border wall
3 years, 5 months ago

The destructive legacy of Trump’s border wall

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But like dozens of other places along the 2,000-mile US-Mexico border, under the Trump administration this remote area on …

GOP embraces Trump during visit to Texas, border wall
3 years, 8 months ago

GOP embraces Trump during visit to Texas, border wall

Associated Press  

PHARR, Texas — Republican lawmakers traveled to Texas to cheer former President Donald Trump as he paid a visit to the southern border Wednesday and hammered the Biden administration for its immigration policies amid a decades-high spike in border crossings. After facing criticism for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, Abbott has taken up Trump’s immigration mantle, vowing to continue …

Texas’ Republican Governor Tries to Keep “the Wall” Political Gravy Train Going
55 years, 2 months ago

Texas’ Republican Governor Tries to Keep “the Wall” Political Gravy Train Going

Slate  

The “wall” as metaphor continues even after Donald Trump’s presidency. Realistic estimates of walling off Texas’ 1,200-mile border with Mexico could reach as high as $120 billion. Abbott says, yes of course, his state will chip in too to the tune of $250 million for the state-led border wall construction promising “hundreds of miles” of wall. “The Biden Administration won’t …

Texas governor: State, crowdsourcing will fund border wall
3 years, 9 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, 9 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 …

Homeland Security to repair damage created by border wall
3 years, 10 months ago

Homeland Security to repair damage created by border wall

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 Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Biden administration said …

Military funds for Trump border wall to be cancelled
3 years, 10 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, 11 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 …

Construction of Trump’s border wall may continue under Biden, administration admits
3 years, 11 months ago

Construction of Trump’s border wall may continue under Biden, administration admits

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 Construction on Donald Trump's border wall may continue under Joe …

Biden decree ends 'emergency' that Trump used to build wall
4 years, 1 month 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
4 years, 1 month 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
4 years, 2 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 …

Trump put migrants in border limbo. So far Biden has left them there
4 years, 2 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, …

Immigration: Biden halts border wall and travel ban
4 years, 2 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
4 years, 2 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 …

Josh Hawley launches new attack on Joe Biden as he lodges objection on his Homeland Security pick
4 years, 2 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?
4 years, 2 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
4 years, 2 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
4 years, 2 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 …

Trump to visit U.S.-Mexico border to laud border wall
4 years, 2 months ago

Trump to visit U.S.-Mexico border to laud border wall

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — 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. He will mark the completion of 400 miles of border wall and his administration’s efforts to reform what the White House described as the nation’s broken immigration system. Trump’s campaign for …

Trump administration has awarded border wall contracts on land in Texas it doesn't own
4 years, 3 months ago

Trump administration has awarded border wall contracts on land in Texas it doesn't own

Salon  

Each additional day of delay was costing the government $15,000 as contractors waited to begin construction on the border fence slated to go through Mendoza's ranch, the Department of Justice argued in court filings. Federal judges hearing CBP's eminent domain cases in South Texas also have expressed frustration with the government's legal argument for immediate possession in Starr County. "Once …

Biden’s pledge to halt border wall construction would save US $2.6bn, Pentagon estimates
4 years, 3 months ago

Biden’s pledge to halt border wall construction would save US $2.6bn, Pentagon estimates

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 If Joe Biden follows through on his claim that he …

Biden is facing high hopes, tough choices on border wall
4 years, 3 months ago

Biden is facing high hopes, tough choices on border wall

Associated Press  

LOS EBANOS, Texas — The U.S. government has been trying to take Pamela Rivas’ land for a border wall since before Joe Biden was vice president. “We’re a little less naïve than last time,” said Ricky Garza, a lawyer with the nonprofit Texas Civil Rights Project, which represents Rivas and other landowners. “What we saw 10 years ago was a …

Biden is facing high hopes, tough choices on border wall
4 years, 3 months 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,” …

Trump administration rushes to complete Mexico border wall before Biden takes office
4 years, 3 months ago

Trump administration rushes to complete Mexico border wall before Biden takes office

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 The outgoing Trump administration is rushing to complete as much …

Death, debt, and degradation: Trump’s border wall after four years
4 years, 4 months 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, …

Trump officials tout progress on border wall before election
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump officials tout progress on border wall before election

Associated Press  

HOUSTON — Top Trump administration officials visited Texas five days before Election Day to announce they have nearly completed 400 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall, trying to show progress on perhaps the president’s best-known campaign promise four years ago. Stephen Miller, a top Trump adviser, told reporters Wednesday that “we have a president campaigning on having successfully built a border …

Trump officials tout progress on border wall before election
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump officials tout progress on border wall before election

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 Top Trump administration officials visited Texas five days before Election …

New engineering report finds privately built border wall will fail
4 years, 6 months ago

New engineering report finds privately built border wall will fail

Salon  

It's not a matter of if a privately built border fence along the shores of the Rio Grande will fail, it's a matter of when, according to a new engineering report on the troubled project. Company president Tommy Fisher, a frequent guest on Fox News, had called the Rio Grande fence the "Lamborghini" of border walls and bragged that his …

Part of Trump’s border wall at risk of collapse just months after it was built
4 years, 6 months ago

Part of Trump’s border wall at risk of collapse just months after it was built

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 Part of the Trump administration’s border wall between the US …

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