The 30-foot-tall steel fencing will include an array of sophisticated technology like sensors, cameras and towers allowing the Border Patrol to monitor the territory.

Since news first surfaced late last year that border walls could be built for the first time in the Big Bend region of West Texas, the story has been marked by shifting, unannounced changes to the ...

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, says he’s working with Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee for exceptions to be put in the 2027 Homeland Security ...

PHOENIX — For decades, all that separated the US from Mexico was barbed wire. Now, after a massive infusion of cash from Congress, President Donald Trump’s administration is swiftly building what it ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Before the Trump administration decided the country urgently needed to erect a ...

In June 2026, a video circulated online that purported to show two migrants using a ladder to scale the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The footage showed two people in dark clothing scaling a ladder that a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Border wall in southern El Paso County at San Elizario, Texas. Photo: Bethany Blankley / The Center Square (The Center Square) - U ...

In its dash to build President Trump’s signature border wall, the federal government is drilling unpermitted wells into already-depleted aquifers in New Mexico, according to state officials. The New ...

Protesters carry signs against the border wall on February 28 at the intersection of Highway 118 and FM 170 in Terlingua. There were over 100 people in attendance that day, and there were frequent ...

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said recently that a preliminary part of the wall will be finished by “this time next year.” PHOENIX (AP) — For decades, all that separated the U.S. from ...

PHOENIX — For decades, all that separated the U.S. from Mexico was barbed wire. Now, after a massive infusion of cash from Congress, President Donald Trump’s administration is swiftly building what it ...