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Woman Hanging Upside Down on Border Wall for ‘Significant Amount of Time' Found Dead
The 32-year-old Mexican woman was attempting to cross the wall Monday night.
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Disinformation and Violent Threats Shut Down this Butterfly Sanctuary
The National Butterfly Center made headlines when it fought against the plans for a border fence while Donald Trump was president. The barrier near the U.S.-Mexico border would have divided the center’s land and required clearing out parts of it. Now, the center is closed indefinitely after staff and the board faced violent threats fueled by right-wing disinformation. “These lies...
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Gov. Abbott Vowed to Build a Wall With Mexico. Texas Borderland Owners Say Not in My Backyard
Nayda Alvarez fought the Trump administration in court over an attempt to build on her property and if Texas Gov. Greg Abbott moves forward with his announced plan to try to accomplish what President Donald Trump did not, Alvarez said she will fight him too.
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Greg Abbott Wants Texas to Build a Border Wall. But Can He?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott authorized a $250 million “down payment” for a wall along the border with Mexico, saying he is continuing work from the Trump administration. But it’s not clear whether Abbott has the authority to do so or how much the final project would cost if completed, says reporter James Barragán from The Texas Tribune.
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Biden to Return Diverted Border Wall Money, Spend Down Rest
Former President Donald Trump’s signature border wall project would lose much of its funding as well as the fast-track status that enabled it to bypass environmental regulations under a new Biden administration plan
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Why the Border Wall is Wreaking Havoc With the Environment
The issue with migrants aside for a moment, the border wall is also wreaking untold damage on the environment
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Why the Environmental Crisis Sparked by Trump's Border Wall May Be Irreparable
You’ve likely heard about the U.S.-Mexico “border crisis” in the context of migrants. You may not have heard about the urgent environmental crisis that activists say has been triggered by the wall itself.
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Biden Decree Ends ‘Emergency' That Trump Used to Build Wall
President Joe Biden has officially ended the “national emergency” that President Donald Trump declared in order to take money from the Pentagon to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border
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Biden Signs Executive Orders Reversing Trump Policies on the Border Wall, Paris Climate Accords and More
With the sweeping stroke of a pen President Joe Biden moved quickly to dismantle former President Trump’s legacy on his first day in office, signing a series of executive actions that reverse course on immigration, climate change, racial equity and the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Trump to Visit Texas-Mexico Border 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, the White House said Saturday.
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Biden Is Facing High Hopes, Tough Choices on Border Wall
President-elect Joe Biden will face immediate pressure to fulfill his pledge to stop border wall construction.
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How the Trump Administration's Border Wall is Destroying a Native American Tribe's Land and Legacy
The chairwoman for the Native American tribe Hia C-ed O’odham, which means Sand People, shares her story about how the Trump administration’s border wall has hurt her community. Chairwoman Christina Andrews said construction has already destroyed a children’s shrine and sacred trails.
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For Latinos in Texas Border Towns, Trump's Wall Is Personal
Fátima Garza is a college student and activist fighting against construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall. If construction goes as planned, it will cut through homes in Los Ebanos, a small border town in Texas where most of Garza’s family lives. For Garza and other residents, the wall is more than a distant talking point; it’s in their backyard....
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Former Trump Campaign Boss Steve Bannon Indicted for Fraud in NY
Former Trump campaign CEO and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was indicted in New York on fraud charges related to a fundraising campaign to build a border wall, federal prosecutors said. Bannon is among four people indicted for allegedly defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors to the online “We Build the Wall” campaign. Manhattan federal prosecutors and the...
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Tribe Says New Border Wall Harming Burial Sites; Sues Trump
A California tribe whose ancestral lands span across the U.S.-Mexico border is suing the Trump administration to block construction of a section of border wall that the Kumeyaay people say is desecrating sacred burial sites.
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Supreme Court Won't Halt Challenged Border Wall Projects
The Supreme Court has declined by a 5-4 vote to halt the Trump administration’s construction of portions of the border wall with Mexico following a recent lower court ruling that the administration improperly diverted money to the project
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Trump Rips Private Texas Border Wall Built By His Supporters
President Donald Trump has criticized a privately built border wall in South Texas that’s showing signs of erosion months after going up, saying in a tweet that he thinks it was “only done to make me look bad,” even though it was built after a months-long campaign by his supporters.
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About That Border Wall, Mr. Presidents … Who's Paying?
President Donald Trump has made building some 450 miles of wall on the U.S.-Mexico border a defining issue of his presidency, and vowed that Mexico would pay for it.
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Border Wall Challenge
The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that rejected environmental groups’ challenge to sections of wall the Trump administration is building along the U.S. border with Mexico
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Judge: US Must Free Migrant Children From Family Detention
A federal judge has ordered the release of children held with their parents in U.S. immigration jails and denounced the Trump administration’s prolonged detention of families during the coronavirus pandemic