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 the wall,” Trump said. Asked whether he would consider pardoning Adams, Trump said, “Yeah I would.” “I think that he was treated pretty unfairly,” Trump said, while at the same time acknowledging he doesn’t “know the facts.” Adams has been accused of accepting flight upgrades and other luxury travel perks valued at $100,000 along with illegal campaign contributions from a Turkish official and other foreign nationals looking to buy his influence. Outgoing Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, had said Friday that Trump’s nominees seeking Senate confirmation should “steer clear” of efforts to discredit the polio vaccine, calling them not just uninformed, but “dangerous.” Trump also weighed in on the mysterious drone sightings over parts of New Jersey and the eastern U.S. that have sparked speculation and concern over where they are coming from.

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‘Huge win’: MAGA world cheers as far-right AG brags of legal victory against Biden
1 week, 5 days ago

‘Huge win’: MAGA world cheers as far-right AG brags of legal victory against Biden

Raw Story  

President Joe Biden can no longer sell off unused border wall parts before the next administration takes office, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced late Friday. "We have successfully blocked the Biden administration from disposing of any further border wall materials before President Trump takes office,” Paxton said. “This follows our major victory forcing Biden to build the wall, and …

Trump says he will 'look at' pardon for embattled New York mayor Eric Adams
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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Trump says he will 'look at' pardon for embattled New York mayor Eric Adams

India Today  

PALM BEACH: President-elect Donald Trump on Monday said in a far-ranging news conference that ihe would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams. Speaking at his first press conference since winning the election, Trump also threatened legal action against the Biden administration over sales of portions of border wall, saying he has spoken to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton …

'Dumb': Republican melts down on Fox News as Biden sells off unused border wall parts
3 weeks, 2 days 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
3 weeks, 6 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
1 month 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 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?
7 months 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 …

Joe Biden to build more US border wall using Trump-era funds
1 year, 3 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, 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 …

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 …

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 …

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, 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 …

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 …

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 …

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’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’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 …

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 …

Builders of Trump’s wall on Mexico border hold crisis talks after Biden pledges to end construction
4 years, 1 month ago

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

The Independent  

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Biden is facing high hopes, tough choices on border wall
4 years, 1 month 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, 1 month 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,” …

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, …

Donald Trump's border wall is 'desecrating' sacred Indigenous sites, tribal leaders say. Could the US election change this?
4 years, 2 months 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 …

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 …

Trump and Biden take sharply different paths on immigration
4 years, 3 months ago

Trump and Biden take sharply different paths on immigration

Al Jazeera  

Limiting immigration has been a focus for Donald Trump and Joe Biden is pledging to reverse many of Trump’s policies. Biden tweeted at the time that Trump was banning immigrants to distract from his administration’s pandemic response and that “immigrants help grow our economy and create jobs”. ‘Dreamers’ The Supreme Court ruled in June against Trump’s 2017 decision to end …

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 …

Biden Would End Border Wall Construction, But Wouldn't Tear Down Trump's Additions
4 years, 5 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 …

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 …

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 …

Trump administration reaches 100-mile mark for border wall
4 years, 11 months 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 …

Border agents admit smugglers are cutting through Trump's wall with a common household power tool: report
5 years, 2 months ago

Border agents admit smugglers are cutting through Trump's wall with a common household power tool: report

Raw Story  

On Saturday, the Washington Post reported that smugglers have sliced holes in the new sections of Trump's border wall with a common and readily available power tool, large enough for people and drugs to pass through. "The breaches have been made using a popular cordless household tool known as a reciprocating saw that retails at hardware stores for as little …

Trump calls new border wall a ‘world-class security system’
5 years, 3 months ago

Trump calls new border wall a ‘world-class security system’

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — President Donald Trump signed his name on a newly constructed section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, calling it a “world-class security system” that will be virtually impenetrable. Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, defended the project, dismissing critics who call it the “president’s vanity wall.” “I’m here to tell you that’s false,” he …

Donald Trump cites national emergency in new border wall plea
5 years, 3 months ago

Donald Trump cites national emergency in new border wall plea

India TV News  

US President Donald Trump has reiterated the need for a stretch of about more than 800 km of border wall with Mexico to tackle what he said was a serious national emergency. During a visit to a stretch of the border fence erected in Otay Mesa, southern California, Trump on Wednesday said the "tremendous national emergency" involving drugs and human …

Trump calls new border wall a ‘world-class security system’
5 years, 3 months ago

Trump calls new border wall a ‘world-class security system’

The Hindu  

U.S. President Donald Trump signed his name on Wednesday on a newly constructed section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, calling it a “world-class security system” that will be “virtually impenetrable”. “It was like a sheet metal and people would just knock it over like just routinely,” Mr. Trump said, standing with construction workers and top Customs, Army Corps of Engineers …

Donald Trump calls newly-constructed section of US-Mexico border wall 'world-class security system', dubs structure 'virtually impenetrable'
5 years, 3 months ago

Donald Trump calls newly-constructed section of US-Mexico border wall 'world-class security system', dubs structure 'virtually impenetrable'

Firstpost  

President Donald Trump signed his name Wednesday on a newly constructed section of the US-Mexico border wall, calling it a ‘world-class security system’ that will be virtually impenetrable San Diego: President Donald Trump signed his name Wednesday on a newly constructed section of the US-Mexico border wall, calling it a “world-class security system” that will be virtually impenetrable. “It was …

Washington Post: Trump tells officials he will pardon them if they break the law building the wall
5 years, 4 months ago

Washington Post: Trump tells officials he will pardon them if they break the law building the wall

CNN  

Washington CNN — President Donald Trump, in his push to make good on his promise to supporters by Election Day, has told officials he will pardon them should they break any laws in attempting to finish construction on the wall at the US-Mexico border, The Washington Post reported, citing current and former officials involved with the project. Chants of “build …

Trump administration to spend $2.5bn in Pentagon funds on border wall following Supreme Court ruling
5 years, 5 months ago

Trump administration to spend $2.5bn in Pentagon funds on border wall following Supreme Court ruling

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 Donald Trump has celebrated after the US Supreme Court gave …

Trump has not built single mile of new border wall since taking office
5 years, 5 months ago

Trump has not built single mile of new border wall since taking 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 It was the controversial campaign promise that Donald Trump built …

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