Social Movements & the Law

The Cocopah Indian Tribe says the state of Arizona acted against its wishes by stacking shipping containers on its land to prevent illegal border crossings.

Two O’odham women arrested at the border were taken to a private prison where they were denied access to the outside world.

Amber Ortega was arrested for physically blocking construction machinery at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument last September

The destructive legacy of Trump’s border wall campaign cannot be measured in miles alone and will not be easily undone.

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The National Park Service has closed public access to a spot in southern Arizona where activists were arrested last week for protesting construction of the border w…

The United States’ southern border with Mexico is 1,933 miles long, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the tip of South Texas. Some 700 of those miles have fencing in place, and it varies greatly depending on where you are.

President Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are headed to a final showdown over his signature border wall, setting the stage for a rematch of a fight two years ago that shuttered the govern…

President to visit new section of border wall at San Luis, then deliver political speech in Phoenix

In visiting the US-Mexico border, Trump seeks to change the subject to an issue he thinks will help electrify his base.

“A historically significant area is going to be changed irreparably. You’re never going to be able to put it back together.”

In Arizona, the president visits a new section of border wall at San Luis before delivering a political speech in Phoenix

What happened to President Trump's long-promised wall? How much of it got built? And how effective has it been?

Photographs published by Gizmodo appear to show sections of the partially constructed wall torn apart by monsoon rains

You've heard a lot of talk about the wall. Here's what it's really like.

President Trump's long-promised border wall is igniting a fight over public lands in Arizona that could be adversely impacted by the construction of barriers that will most-likely alter the landscape in areas treasured by locals and nature lovers.

Victim’s identity and country of origin has not been released yet but he was likely an undocumented migrant, authorities say

Contractors replacing the wall are pushing old metal to the Mexican side of Arizona's border, where it's being sold, witnesses told local news.

For the first time, scientists have mapped out the groundwater the two countries share.

In her Brookings Essay, "The Wall," Brookings Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown explains the true costs of building a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Nogales residents say the city is struggling amid the pandemic and after years of Trump painting the area as a ‘war zone’

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — On a dirt road past rows of date trees, just feet from a dry section of Colorado River, a small construction crew is putting up a towering border wall that the government hopes will reduce — for good — the flow of immigrants who cross the U...

The Border Patrol detonated explosives on sacred Native American lands while tribal leaders were testifying against the desecration in Washington, D.C.

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The Trump administration broke ground next to a church and gravesites that are part of an important chapter in the history of the Underground Railroad.

The Trump administration announced plans to erect 150 miles of barrier on the southern border, involving large numbers of contractors from across the country

Vanda Felbab-Brown outlines the harmful effects of the U.S.-Mexico border wall being built by the Trump administrative on Native Mexican communities, highly sensitive natural environments and biodiversity, and water sustainability in Mexico.

The federal government is proceeding with plans for a border wall even as communities where construction is ongoing protest the presence of workers.

A federal judge in Arizona on Monday settled a lawsuit filed against the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection, saying the agencies failed to study potential harms to the environment from increased enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border.

A few dozen people gathered Friday to protest new border wall going up along Arizona's last free-flowing river.