Trump administration taking $3.8bn from military for border wall
4 years, 10 months ago

Trump administration taking $3.8bn from military for border wall

Al Jazeera  

The $3.8bn would come from National Guard and weapons programmes, setting the stage for possible clash with Democrats. The United States Defense Department sent Congress a request to shift nearly four billion dollars from the military budget to pay for a wall on the border with Mexico, a central promise of President Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House four years ago and bid this year for a second term. Congressional Democrats, who opposed Trump’s past diversion of billions of dollars in military spending to the border wall project, said the decision was dangerous and misguided. “President Trump is once again disrespecting the separation of powers and endangering our security by raiding military resources to pay for his wasteful border wall,” said Democratic Representatives Nita Lowey, chairwoman of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, and Pete Visclosky, chairman of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee. Border Wall System update: ▫️ 119 miles completed ▫️ 220 miles under construction ▫️ 237 miles in pre-construction pic.twitter.com/N57pdvlC8A — Chief Rodney Scott February 10, 2020 Trump’s hardline immigration policies, particularly for immigrants who come across the southern border with Mexico, have been a signature of his political campaign and first term in the White House, drawing condemnation from rights groups and immigrant advocates.

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Trump weighs in on NY mayor, vaccines and drones in freewheeling press conference at Mar-a-Lago
3 weeks, 3 days 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
1 month, 1 week 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?
1 month, 1 week 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 …

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

Biden says he had to use Trump-era funds for the border wall. Asked if barriers work, he says ‘No’
1 year, 3 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 …

Trump's Border Wall Caused 'Significant' Harm: Report
1 year, 4 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 …

'Completely Full Of It': Chris Christie Gives Newsmax Host Blunt Trump Fact-Check
1 year, 4 months ago

'Completely Full Of It': Chris Christie Gives Newsmax Host Blunt Trump Fact-Check

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, hit back at rival Donald Trump during a Newsmax interview on Thursday evening. This is another of these Donald Trump fabrications.” Christie said if Trump did “solve” the war, it would be by giving Russian President Vladimir Putin control of the situation. Getting …

Fact-checker zings Trump for his Waco flub contradicting himself in the same speech
1 year, 9 months 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 …

The destructive legacy of Trump’s border wall
3 years, 2 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, 6 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 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 …

Returning to the public eye, Trump will head to US-Mexico border
3 years, 6 months ago

Returning to the public eye, Trump will head to US-Mexico border

Al Jazeera  

The former US president has laid low since leaving office but will resume travel – and rallies – later in June. Former President Donald Trump has said he would visit the US-Mexico border later this month with Texas Governor Greg Abbott after both complained about a rise in migrants crossing into the United States. Trump, Abbott and other Republicans have …

Texas Governor Abbott vows to build a wall along Mexico border
3 years, 6 months ago

Texas Governor Abbott vows to build a wall along Mexico border

Al Jazeera  

Republican Governor Greg Abbott says wall will keep US communities ‘safe’ amid questions over legality of the move. The Republican governor of the US state of Texas has announced plans to build a wall along the border with Mexico, drawing criticism from human rights organisations and advocacy groups. Abbott did not say how much new barrier Texas would erect, where …

Military funds for Trump border wall to be cancelled
3 years, 8 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, 9 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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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’s Legacy Through The Eyes Of Those His Presidency Hurt
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump’s Legacy Through The Eyes Of Those His Presidency Hurt

Huff Post  

One week into his term, President Donald Trump devastated tens of thousands of people with the stroke of a pen. Courtesy of Javier Garrido April 6, 2018 In 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the implementation of Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. This week, Omar helped lead the charge to impeach the president a second time for inciting a mob to …

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 …

Trump’s rush to build US border wall fuels fear of lasting harms
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump’s rush to build US border wall fuels fear of lasting harms

Al Jazeera  

San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona, United States – Biologist Myles Traphagen flips through images captured by his wildlife cameras and shakes his head in disbelief: a javelina, a bird watcher, a couple of US Border Patrol agents – that’s it. “It’s unprecedented, to not have a couple mountain lions, bobcats, deer, turkey, tons of stuff, I would come out …

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 …

Defiant Trump says impeachment move ‘very dangerous’ for the US
3 years, 11 months ago

Defiant Trump says impeachment move ‘very dangerous’ for the US

Al Jazeera  

US president rails against House Democrats’ effort to impeach him for a second time, calling it a ‘hoax’. Trump addressed the riot Tuesday saying the “mob … trashed the halls of government.” “As I have consistently said throughout my administration, we believe in respecting America’s history and traditions, not tearing them down. One of the pillars of Trump’s presidential campaign …

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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Trump to visit U.S.-Mexico border to laud border wall
4 years 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 …

Donald Trump expected to travel to US-Mexico border to laud work on wall
4 years ago

Donald Trump expected to travel to US-Mexico border to laud work on wall

The Telegraph  

President Donald Trump is expected to travel to the US-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. Mr Trump's campaign for the …

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

Death, debt, and degradation: Trump’s border wall after four years
4 years, 2 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, 2 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 …

From building the wall to ending wars, four years in, Trump has plenty of unfinished business
4 years, 2 months ago

From building the wall to ending wars, four years in, Trump has plenty of unfinished business

Firstpost  

Since taking the oath of office in 2016, US president Donald Trump has faced the same hard truth that each of his White House predecessors learned: Governing is rarely easy Washington: President Donald Trump swept into office nearly four years ago as an outsider who promised to get things done quickly on behalf of the American people through sheer force …

Inside Steve Bannon’s Alleged Scheme To Fleece Trump Voters Who Wanted A Border Wall
4 years, 4 months ago

Inside Steve Bannon’s Alleged Scheme To Fleece Trump Voters Who Wanted A Border Wall

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Brian Kolfage had a problem. As part of a fundraising promotion, We Build the Wall offered free, autographed copies of Trump Jr.’s book, “Triggered,” to people donating at least $75. The next day, Kolfage posted a photo of himself with a small group of people including Trump Jr. and “Foreman Mike.” Kolfage shared the same image to …

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to border-wall fraud charges
4 years, 4 months ago

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to border-wall fraud charges

India Today  

Steve Bannon, an architect of Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, was arrested on a yacht on Thursday and pleaded not guilty after being charged with defrauding donors in a scheme to help build the president's signature wall along the US-Mexico border. As a top adviser to Trump's presidential campaign who later served as White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon helped …

About that border wall, Mr. Presidents ... who’s paying?
4 years, 6 months ago

About that border wall, Mr. Presidents ... who’s paying?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has made building some 450 miles of wall on the U.S.-Mexico border a defining issue of his presidency, and long vowed that Mexico would pay for it. So, naturally, with Trump hosting Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the White House for the first time on Wednesday, it would seem the issue would be …

Trump wrongly diverted billions to build wall: Appeals court
4 years, 6 months ago

Trump wrongly diverted billions to build wall: Appeals court

Al Jazeera  

The $2.5bn diverted from military construction was done without Congressional approval and unlawful, the court said. A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against the administration of United States President Donald Trump in its transfer of $2.5bn from military construction projects to build sections of the US border wall with Mexico, ruling it illegally sidestepped Congress, which gets to decide …

Trump campaigns on border wall progress. There’s not much of it
4 years, 6 months ago

Trump campaigns on border wall progress. There’s not much of it

LA Times  

President Trump, whose plans to campaign on a booming economy were ruined by the coronavirus, traveled Tuesday to the southern edge of Arizona to highlight completion of “more than 200 miles of powerful border wall” with Mexico. Only about “three miles of new border wall system constructed in locations where no barriers previously existed,” according to Homeland Security’s June 19 …

Pentagon restarts some domestic building projects that lost funding to Trump’s wall
4 years, 8 months ago

Pentagon restarts some domestic building projects that lost funding to Trump’s wall

CNN  

Washington CNN — Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has directed that several military construction projects in the US that had been put on hold to divert money to President Donald Trump’s border wall be restarted, with funds for the wall instead being redirected from overseas building projects. “I direct you to release funding associated with 22 currently deferred projects within …

DHS seeks Pentagon funds for 270 miles of border wall
4 years, 11 months ago

DHS seeks Pentagon funds for 270 miles of border wall

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has asked the Pentagon to fund the construction of 270 miles of border wall this year as part of a counter-drug effort, defense officials said Thursday. Earlier this week, officials said the Trump administration was weighing whether to shift billions more in military funding to build the border wall. And House Appropriations Committee …

DHS has requested Pentagon assistance to build 270 miles of border wall
4 years, 11 months ago

DHS has requested Pentagon assistance to build 270 miles of border wall

CNN  

CNN — The Pentagon received a Department of Homeland Security request Wednesday to build and pay for hundreds of additional miles of border wall on the southwest border, according to the Department of Defense. “On January 15, 2020, the Department of Defense received a request from the Department of Homeland Security requesting DoD assistance in blocking up to 13 specific …

Trump administration reaches 100-mile mark for border wall
5 years ago

Trump administration reaches 100-mile mark for border wall

CNN  

Washington CNN — The Trump administration has built 100 miles of new wall along the US-Mexico border – the majority of which is replacing previous construction – acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf announced in Arizona on Friday, as the administration touts its record ahead of the presidential election. “One thing I want to emphasize is that every inch of …

U.S. appeals court stays judge’s ruling blocking military funds for border wall
5 years ago

U.S. appeals court stays judge’s ruling blocking military funds for border wall

The Hindu  

A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday put on hold a lower court ruling that blocked President Donald Trump's administration from using $3.6 billion in military construction funds to build a wall on the country's border with Mexico. The $3.6 billion amounts to a third of the approximately $10 billion that Mr. Trump has obtained for border wall construction during …

Three years into Donald Trump's presidency, US govt ramps up efforts to seize private land in Texas to build border wall
5 years ago

Three years into Donald Trump's presidency, US govt ramps up efforts to seize private land in Texas to build border wall

Firstpost  

Donald Trump’s signature campaign promise has consistently faced political, legal, and environmental obstacles in Texas, which has the largest section of the US-Mexico border, most of it without fencing Houston: Three years into Donald Trump’s presidency, the US government is ramping up its efforts to seize private land in Texas to build a border wall. Trump’s signature campaign promise has …

US heads to court to build Trump border wall in Texas
5 years ago

US heads to court to build Trump border wall in Texas

India Today  

Three years into Donald Trump's presidency, the US government is ramping up its efforts to seize private land in Texas to build a border wall. But the government can deposit an amount it deems fair with the court, then seek to take the land immediately on the basis that a border wall is urgently needed. Even as border crossings have …

Pentagon watchdog investigating $400M border wall contract
5 years ago

Pentagon watchdog investigating $400M border wall contract

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department’s internal watchdog is investigating a $400 million border wall contract awarded to a firm that used multiple appearances on Fox News to push for the job. The Pentagon’s inspector general sent a letter Thursday to House Homeland Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson telling him the contract awarded to North Dakota-based firm Fisher Sand and Gravel Co. …

Judge halts some military spending on border wall
5 years ago

Judge halts some military spending on border wall

Associated Press  

EL PASO, Texas — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from spending some Defense Department money to build a border wall with Mexico, the latest twist in a long-running legal battle over one of the president’s signature domestic issues and campaign priorities. The ruling by District Judge David Briones in El Paso, Texas, prevents the government from …

Wall builder who pitched to Trump on Fox wins $400M contract
5 years, 1 month ago

Wall builder who pitched to Trump on Fox wins $400M contract

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — Tommy Fisher’s ambitious plan to win a border wall contract included what could be the next best thing to making a pitch directly to President Donald Trump himself — talking to him through his favorite cable TV channel, Fox News. Fisher’s North Dakota-based firm was awarded a $400 million contract this week to build 31 miles of …

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