border wall

Arizona Gov. Ducey stacks containers on border at term’s end

December 13, 2022 The Associated Press

SAN RAFAEL VALLEY, Arizona — Work crews have steadily erected hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers topped by razor wire along Arizona’s remote eastern boundary with Mexico in a bold show of border enforcement by Republican Gov. […]

Texas governor: State, crowdsourcing will fund border wall

June 17, 2021 Acacia Coronado, Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that he will use $250 million in state money and crowdsourced financing to build more barriers along the U.S. border with Mexico, part of an emerging […]

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

January 10, 2021 Kevin Freking, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — 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. Trump will travel to the […]

Ex-Trump aide Bannon pleads not guilty in border wall scheme

August 20, 2020 Larry Neumeister, Colleen Long, and Jill Colvin, Associated Press

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a southern border wall in federal court […]

Feds give 65 acres of land for border wall infrastructure

July 25, 2020 Astrid Galvan, Associated Press

PHOENIX — The federal Bureau of Land Management said on Tuesday that it has transferred over 65 acres of public land in Arizona and New Mexico to the Army for construction of border wall infrastructure. […]

Homeland Security waives contracting laws for border wall

February 18, 2020 Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will waive federal contracting laws to speed construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security said waiving procurement regulations will […]

Senate appears ready to vote against Trump border declaration

March 14, 2019 admin

WASHINGTON. D.C. — The Republican-led Senate is set to deal President Donald Trump a rebuke on his declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border, with the only remaining question how many GOP senators […]

HILL: How to make Mexico “pay for the wall”

September 27, 2017 Frank Hill

Mr. President: If this is already your plan, congratulations. When Donald Trump, the candidate, kept saying: “BUH-Leeve me! Mexico will pay for the wall,” the media and Democrats scoffed and said there was no way […]

HILL: The DACA for the wall deal

September 20, 2017 Frank Hill

Most deals are lost in Congress by politicians who didn’t recognize when they had won. They let the perfect be the enemy of the good. President Trump set up a classic political deal to be […]