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A massive border wall expansion is underway

TERLINGUA, Texas — The Trump administration is building hundreds of miles of border wall through iconic national parks, public lands and ecologically sensitive wilderness, empowered by provisions in ...
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Why some Texans are pushing back against feds’ border security plans

(NewsNation) — The Trump administration continues to move ahead with border security construction projects along the Texas-Mexico border, but some residents are pushing back on how those measures are ...
Arizona Daily Star

Top Arizona lawmakers back feds in border wall construction push

Top Arizona Republican lawmakers align with Department of Homeland Security, advocating for a 62-mile border wall through ...
The Washington Post

Spike in border wall spending goes mostly to 2 firms with GOP, White House ties

The Trump administration has sharply accelerated spending on border wall construction, issuing billion-dollar contracts that are the largest in the project’s history and potentially putting the ...
AZ Central

Border wall crews damage 1,000-year-old site as tribe warns of risks

Tohono O'odham tribal leaders are opposing border wall construction that they say desecrates sacred sites. A 1,000-year-old cultural site, the Las Playas Intaglio, was damaged by a contractor during ...
Yahoo

Will there be a border wall in Big Bend National Park? What we know

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an aerial view, the Rio Grande divides the United States, left, and Mexico while flowing alongside Texas' Big Bend Ranch State ...
CNN

Trump is racing to finish his border wall. Here’s how he is planning to do it

President Donald Trump is accelerating his effort to finish his border wall and setting an ambitious goal of completing it by the end of his administration. He’ll need landowners whose property runs ...
Los Angeles Times

U.S.-Mexico border wall construction is desecrating sacred sites, Indigenous leaders say

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Indigenous leaders along the U.S.-Mexico border say wall construction is blasting through sacred mountains and ...
El Paso Times

'Dishonoring' Mount Cristo Rey: Border wall project stirs debate

SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — The sun had barely begun to rise above the Franklin Mountains as people began arriving in the parking lot at the base of Mount Cristo Rey for their morning hike. By ...
The New York Times

A Border Wall Plan Unites Republicans and Democrats in Texas: ‘This Is Insane’

Plans for a wall in Big Bend National Park prompted public protests and behind-the-scenes lobbying to sway the Trump administration to stop. Raymond Skiles, a retired ranger for Big Bend National Park ...
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Border Wall Plans Threaten Rural Infrastructure and Cross-Border Life in Big Bend

Border wall plans in the Big Bend region threaten the cross-border routines, tourism economy, and fragile desert ecosystems that define life along the Rio Grande. Last week, the federal government ...