President Trump’s border wall prototypes to come down
5 years, 10 months ago

President Trump’s border wall prototypes to come down

LA Times  

President Trump talks with reporters as he reviews border wall prototypes at the San Diego-Tijuana border in March. President Trump’s border wall prototypes will be demolished to make way for newly begun construction of a secondary barrier, according to a Customs and Border Protection spokesman. Construction crews have already replaced most of one layer of fencing along 14 miles of the San Diego-Tijuana border and started work on the secondary fence this week. The eight prototypes, which Trump visited about a year ago, stand between the end of the old secondary fence and where construction crews have put up the first panels of 30-foot tall bollards — concrete-filled steel posts placed close together — where the additional mile or so of barrier will go.

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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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

Smugglers are sawing through brand new sections of Trump's border wall using household power tools
5 years, 2 months ago

Smugglers are sawing through brand new sections of Trump's border wall using household power tools

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. One senior administration official, who was …

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 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 …

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 …

US court blocks funds for parts of Mexico border wall
5 years, 6 months ago

US court blocks funds for parts of Mexico border wall

The Quint  

San Francisco, June 29 A US court has ruled that President Donald Trump's attempt to divert $2.5 billion in funding to begin building a wall along the Mexico border in parts of California and New Mexico was illegal. On May 24, the court temporarily blocked Trump's ability to divert $1 billion in funding toward border walls in state of New …

Trump has built less than 2 miles of new wall with $1.57 BILLION Congress handed him for this year
5 years, 7 months ago

Trump has built less than 2 miles of new wall with $1.57 BILLION Congress handed him for this year

Daily Mail  

The Trump administration has built less than 2 miles of new border barriers using the $1.57 billion Congress allocated to the project for the fiscal year that will end September 30, according to a letter filed Tuesday in federal court. President Donald Trump played defense on Wednesday after a lawyer for Congress told a federal judge that his administration has …

Trump visits Calexico a day after retreating from threats to close U.S.-Mexico border
5 years, 9 months ago

Trump visits Calexico a day after retreating from threats to close U.S.-Mexico border

LA Times  

President Trump is presented with a souvenir piece of border barrier by Border Patrol agent Gloria Chavez during a discussion of immigration and border security April 5 in Calexico. “We’re really making progress in letting people know that this is an absolute emergency,” Trump said during a roundtable discussion with local and national officials in Calexico. Gavin Newsom, who has …

Trump prototypes for Mexico border wall demolished in California
5 years, 10 months ago

Trump prototypes for Mexico border wall demolished in California

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. The US Customs and Border protection had built the …

Amid clouds of dust, border wall prototypes are demolished
5 years, 10 months ago

Amid clouds of dust, border wall prototypes are demolished

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — A jackhammer reduced prototypes of President Donald Trump’s prized border wall into piles of rubble Wednesday, a quick ending to an experiment that turned into a spectacle at times. The four concrete and four steel panels, spaced closely together steps from an existing barrier separating San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, instantly became powerful symbols associated with the …

‘Finish the wall’? Facing failure, Trump tries rebranding
5 years, 10 months ago

‘Finish the wall’? Facing failure, Trump tries rebranding

LA Times  

For President Trump, chants and signs saying “Build the wall” are so 2016 — “Finish the wall” is his new rallying cry. Even as the president has failed to get the funding he wants for a wall, despite two years with a Republican-controlled Congress, he has shifted to declaring victory and claiming credit for the 654 miles of fencing constructed …

Test for Trump’s steel border wall prototype 'proves it can be sawed through'
5 years, 11 months ago

Test for Trump’s steel border wall prototype 'proves it can be sawed through'

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. In late 2017,DHS testing proved that all eight of the Trump administration’s prototypes, including …

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