Park service bars access to site of border wall protests in Arizona
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.
Trump, Pelosi barrel toward final border wall showdown
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…
US-Mexico border wall fight ensnares public Arizona land
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.
The Wall: The real costs of a barrier between the United States and Mexico
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.
The Mexico–United States barrier is a series of vertical barriers along the Mexico–United States border intended to reduce illegal immigration to the United States from Mexico. The barrier is not a continuous structure but a series of obstructions variously classified as "fences" or "walls".
The Trump wall, commonly referred to as "The Wall", is an expansion of the Mexico–United States barrier that started during the U.S. presidency of Donald Trump and was a critical part of Trump's campaign platform in the 2016 presidential election. Throughout his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump called for the construction of a border wall. He said that, if elected, he would "build the wall and make Mexico pay for it". Then-Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto rejected Trump's claim that Mexico would pay for the wall; all construction in fact relied exclusively on U.S. funding.
Check out this data/research hub from the Southern Border Communities Coalition that provides a deep look at border militarization, the border agents masquerading as soldiers, the violent & deadly border wall & the policies that allow this to happen.
DHS Wall Construction Update: September 29, 2020 | Homeland Security
As hundreds of new miles of border wall system have been constructed, they have pushed cartels to traffic their poisonous products precisely where DHS is best equipped— our Ports of Entry. The drugs we are seizing as a result of this new wall that never enter and devastate our communities, and never line the pockets of cartels.
The Border Patrol Tactical Unit provides an immediateresponse capability to emergent and high-risk incidents requiring specialized skills and tactics. BORTAC has a cadre of full-time team members headquartered in El Paso, Texas and non-full-time members dispersed throughout the United States. The teams can be called
upon to deploy immediately when needed.
BackgroundThe Tohono O’odham have resided in what is now southern andcentral Arizona and northern Mexico since time immemorial.The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 divided the Tohono O’odham’straditional lands and separated their communities. Today, theNation’s reservation includes 62 miles of international border.The Nation is a federally recognized tribe of 34,000 members,including more than 2,000 residing in Mexico.Long […]
450 miles of border wall by next year? In Arizona, it starts
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 Invited the Press to Watch It Blow Up a National Monument
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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