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  

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. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} 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. 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 presidency in 2016 focused extensively on the president's desire to construct a border wall.

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Trump's $20M-per-mile border wall can be bypassed with simple power tools: report
3 weeks, 1 day 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 …

Trump Claims Border Win After Call With Mexico's President. She Says Nothing's Changed.
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Trump Claims Border Win After Call With Mexico's President. She Says Nothing's Changed.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump declared a win on stopping illegal immigration through Mexico on Wednesday after talking with that country’s leader. Trump said Sheinbaum “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico.” Sheinbaum indicated separately on social media that she told Trump that Mexico is already “taking care of” migrant caravans, calling it an “excellent …

Trump claims a win on immigration after a call with Mexico’s president. But she suggests no change
Trending News
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Trump claims a win on immigration after a call with Mexico’s president. But she suggests no change

Associated Press  

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump declared a win on stopping illegal immigration through Mexico on Wednesday after talking with that country’s leader. Trump said Sheinbaum “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico.” Sheinbaum indicated separately on social media that she told Trump that Mexico is already “taking care of” migrant caravans, calling it an “excellent conversation.” “We reiterate …

Trump to take drastic action against Canada, Mexico and China to stop the border 'invasion' and issues an ultimatum
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Trump to take drastic action against Canada, Mexico and China to stop the border 'invasion' and issues an ultimatum

Daily Mail  

President-elect Donald Trump threatened Monday to slap a 25 percent tariff on Mexican and Canadian goods as long as the countries allowed immigrants to flow over the U.S. border. 'Until such time as they stop, we will be charging China an additional 10% Tariff, above any additional Tariffs, on all of their many products coming into the United States of …

Trump’s Day One: Deportations, border wall, scrapping Biden humanitarian programs
1 month, 1 week ago

Trump’s Day One: Deportations, border wall, scrapping Biden humanitarian programs

Hindustan Times  

* Trump’s Day One: Deportations, border wall, scrapping Biden humanitarian programs Trump to issue order making it easier to arrest migrants with no criminal record * Early action to end Biden's humanitarian programs allowing legal entry * National Guard to be sent to border, border wall construction to resume By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON, - President-elect Donald Trump is expected to …

US election results: Ask our Washington correspondent anything as Trump wins crucial battleground states
1 month, 2 weeks ago

US election results: Ask our Washington correspondent anything as Trump wins crucial battleground states

The Independent  

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How Trump spent Election Day as presidential race goes down to the wire
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

How Trump spent Election Day as presidential race goes down to the wire

The Independent  

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Trump comes up with new slur against US: ‘We’re the garbage can for the world’
2 months ago

Trump comes up with new slur against US: ‘We’re the garbage can for the world’

The Independent  

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Donald Trump says he’ll flee to Venezuela if he loses the election
4 months, 1 week ago

Donald Trump says he’ll flee to Venezuela if he loses the election

The Independent  

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Biden and Trump visit US-Mexico border amid immigration crisis
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden and Trump visit US-Mexico border amid immigration crisis

Al Jazeera  

US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump made separate visits to the US-Mexico border in Texas, competing over who has the best approach to tackling immigration. Biden, who visited the Rio Grande Valley city of Brownsville, long the busiest corridor for border crossings, underlined the necessity of a bipartisan border security bill, which was tanked by Republicans on …

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 …

Trump again vows to be a day-one ‘dictator’ in Iowa town hall
11 months, 1 week ago

Trump again vows to be a day-one ‘dictator’ in Iowa town hall

The Independent  

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Trump returns to the U.S.-Mexico border as he lays out hard-line immigration proposals
1 year, 1 month ago

Trump returns to the U.S.-Mexico border as he lays out hard-line immigration proposals

LA Times  

Donald Trump picked up the Texas governor’s endorsement Sunday during a visit to a U.S.-Mexico border town and promised that his hard-line immigration policies in a second presidential term would make Greg Abbott’s “job much easier.” “You’ll be able to focus on other things in Texas,” Trump told Abbott as they each appeared before a crowd of about 150 at …

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 …

Donald Trump Resurrects His Cruel Idea For Stopping Migrants At The Border
1 year, 3 months ago

Donald Trump Resurrects His Cruel Idea For Stopping Migrants At The Border

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Donald Trump shared a cruel meme on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday that suggested alligators could be used to prevent migrants from crossing the border without authorization. In 2019, The New York Times reported on the then-president’s private musings on “fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators.” Trump also talked …

Ted Cruz called out for pushing fake explanation for Mexico border photo
1 year, 3 months ago

Ted Cruz called out for pushing fake explanation for Mexico border photo

The Independent  

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Trump pushed 'incandescently stupid' plan to send cattle over his border wall: former staffer
1 year, 5 months ago

Trump pushed 'incandescently stupid' plan to send cattle over his border wall: former staffer

Raw Story  

Former Trump White House staffer Miles Taylor claims in his new book that the former president was willing to go to extreme lengths to make sure that his beloved wall on the U.S.-Mexico border had no doors. As Newsweek reports, Taylor writes that Trump in 2019 was upset at reports that Texas ranchers were bringing their cattle through openings in …

Column: Is ‘pregnable’ a word? If so, that’s what Trump’s border wall is
2 years, 9 months ago

Column: Is ‘pregnable’ a word? If so, that’s what Trump’s border wall is

LA Times  

President Trump at a replacement section of border wall east of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego in 2019. My first reaction to the news that Mexican smuggling gangs have cut through Donald Trump’s supposedly impregnable border wall more than 3,000 times was to laugh out loud. Trump also insisted that his “big beautiful wall” would be …

GOP embraces Trump during visit to Texas, border wall
3 years, 5 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 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 …

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 …

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  

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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

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 …

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, …

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 takes no responsibility for riot, visits Texas
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump takes no responsibility for riot, visits Texas

Associated Press  

ALAMO, Texas — President Donald Trump on Tuesday took no responsibility for his part in fomenting a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week, despite his comments encouraging supporters to march on the Capitol and praise for them while they were still carrying out the assault. He added, “Respect for law enforcement is the foundation of the MAGA agenda,” …

Analysis: Trump abdicating in the job he fought to retain
3 years, 11 months ago

Analysis: Trump abdicating in the job he fought to retain

The Independent  

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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  

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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 …

Trump to visit U.S.-Mexico border to laud border wall
3 years, 11 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 …

Donald Trump expected to travel to US-Mexico border to laud work on wall
3 years, 11 months 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 …

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  

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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  

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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  

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Trump officials tout progress on border wall before election
4 years, 1 month 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 …

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 …

Trump's And Biden's Plans On Immigration
4 years, 2 months ago

Trump's And Biden's Plans On Immigration

NPR  

Trump's And Biden's Plans On Immigration Enlarge this image Tony Webster and Rey Perezoso/Flickr; Caroline Amenabar/NPR Tony Webster and Rey Perezoso/Flickr; Caroline Amenabar/NPR Key priorities Joe Biden Do away with restrictions to immigration put in place during the Trump administration and stop construction of Trump's border wall. Biden's plans for immigration Much of Biden's immigration plan centers around reversing a …

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 in Arizona: My border wall stopped the coronavirus
4 years, 6 months ago

Trump in Arizona: My border wall stopped the coronavirus

Al Jazeera  

In visiting the US-Mexico border, Trump seeks to change the subject to an issue he thinks will help electrify his base. President Donald Trump visited the US-Mexico border Tuesday and tried to credit his new wall with stopping both undocumented immigration and the coronavirus. Low turnout for the rally, however, sharpened the focus on Trump’s visit to Arizona, which doubles …

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