Former President Trump tours southern border with Gov. Abbott to discuss border security
Former President Trump's visit to the Texas border comes two weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott promised to finish the border wall in Texas using state funds and private donations. Critics call it a political stunt.
Dozens of Florida law enforcement officers heading to US-Mexico border on Monday
More than 50 law enforcement officers in Florida will head to Texas and Arizona on Monday to help with border-control efforts
Border Patrol chief who backed Trump's wall resigns
Rodney Scott wrote to agents that he will be reassigned.
Harris to make 1st visit to US-Mexico border Friday
Vice President Kamala Harris is set to make her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office.
Gov. Abbott launches new Texas border wall plan
Texas is putting up $250,000,000 for the down payment, according to the Texas governor.
Governor Abbott plans to spend at least $250M on Texas border wall
Texas is putting up $250,000,000 for the down payment, according to the Texas governor.
Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas will build a border wall, but doesn’t yet give details on cost or location
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that Texas will build a border wall along the state’s boundary with Mexico — but provided no details on where or when.
Trump slams Biden on border, White House says it doesn’t take immigration ‘advice’ from him
Former President Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden's immigration policies amid a flood of migrants at the border since his victory. In response, the White House called Trump's policies while in office "not only inhumane but ineffective."
Biden meets with Mexican president Monday to discuss migration, other issues
President Joe Biden met virtually Monday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — a chance for the pair to talk more fully about migration, confronting the coronavirus and cooperating on economic and national security issues.
Biden's decree ends 'emergency' that Trump used to build border wall
President Joe Biden has officially ended the "national emergency" that former President Donald Trump declared in order to take money from the Pentagon to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Biden halts border wall construction; contractors told to stop building
President Joe Biden has ordered a "pause" on all border wall construction. During his campaign, Biden pledged not to build "another foot" of Trump's wall at the US-Mexico border.
Trump to visit U.S.-Mexico border in Texas to laud border wall
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.
If Biden halts border wall, it could cost taxpayers billions, CBP chief warns
President-elect Joe Biden is promising that border wall building won't continue under his administration, but with hundreds of miles under construction, the head of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is warning that shutting down construction could cost taxpayers billions.
40 miles of new border wall to be built in Texas
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that it has awarded two contracts to build roughly 40 miles of new border walls in Webb County, Texas.
Border Patrol arrests nearly 50 undocumented immigrants in Phoenix
Helicopter video showed dozens of people being lined up in an alleyway and taken into white vans near 27th Avenue and Indian School Road.
Biden says border wall construction will stop if he’s elected president
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said that while he won’t tear down President Trump’s much-touted wall along the United States’ southern border with Mexico, he also won’t continue construction of the barrier if he’s elected president in November.
Supreme Court denies request to halt construction of the border wall
A number of groups, including the ACLU and Sierra Club, had asked the high court to get involved again after the justices last year cleared the way for the administration to use military funds for construction while the case played out in the courts.
Largest yet: $1.3 billion contract awarded for border wall
Trump has promised to build 450 miles of wall along the border with Mexico by the end of the year. So far, the government has awarded millions of dollars in contracts for construction of 30-foot-tall barriers, along with new lighting, technology, and infrastructure. The Trump administration says it has already built 187 miles of wall. Some of it is new, but most is replacing old, much shorter barriers that officials say were not sufficient.
Homeland Security waives contracting laws for border wall
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will waive federal contracting laws to speed construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump to transfer $3.8B from military to fund his border wall
It turns out Mexico won't be paying for the wall after all.