US-Mexico border

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks alongside former President Donald Trump during a tour of an unfinished section of the border wall on June 30 in Pharr, Texas. Abbott says he'll continue Trump's border barrier, a pledge that is expected to help the governor i

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Controlling The Border Is A Challenge. Texas Gov. Abbott's Crackdown Is Proving That

12:39pm August 07, 2021

by John Burnett

"Operation Lone Star," as it's called, relies on a force of state troopers, National Guard and reinforcements from other red states. The mission is to curtail the migrants surging into the Rio Grande.

A group of migrants rapidly deported from the U.S. under Title 42 wait on the Mexican side of the Paso del Norte International Bridge, between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on March 10.

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Rejected By 1 Mexican Port Of Entry, Migrants Are Flown By U.S. To Another

7:25pm March 26, 2021

by Angela Kocherga | KTEP

Some areas on the border in Mexico are refusing to take back unauthorized migrants expelled by the United States, so U.S. authorities are flying them to where Mexican officials will accept them.

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In the Guadalupe Canyon in southeastern Arizona, work crews are dynamiting mountainsides and bulldozing access roads in this stunning landscape to make way for the border wall. Mexico is on the left.

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Trump's Border Wall Builders Carry On Even Though Projects May Never Be Completed

3:22pm November 16, 2020

by John Burnett

Builders are hurrying to get as many miles completed as possible before President-elect Joe Biden can cancel contracts. Biden has said his administration would stop building the wall.

A new section of the border wall is seen in November 2019 south of Donna, Texas. Trump's 576-mile border wall is expected to cost nearly $20 million per mile, which is more expensive than any other wall under construction in the world.

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$11 Billion And Counting: Trump's Border Wall Would Be The World's Most Costly

7:25am January 19, 2020

by John Burnett

The costs keep piling up for Trump's border wall which has a current pricetag of $11 billion — nearly $20 million per mile. It's more expensive than any other wall under construction in the world.

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A white-tailed deer emerges from the brush. The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge has some of the richest biological diversity in North America--with 1,200 plants, 300 butterflies, and 700 vertebrates, of which 520 are birds.

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Border Wall Threatens National Wildlife Refuge That's Been 40 Years In The Making

10:11am January 14, 2020

Construction of the Trump administration's border wall has been slowed by difficulties acquiring private land, so the government is prioritizing construction inside federal nature sanctuaries.

American Family Shot At In Mexico, 13-Year-Old Killed. FBI Offers Help In Probe

11:31pm January 07, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

A family was en route to the U.S. when they were attacked Saturday in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The shooting is similar to one in which nine Americans were killed driving in Mexico in November.

Central American migrants walk along the U.S. border fence looking for places to cross, in Tijuana, Mexico.

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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody

11:04am December 14, 2018

by Richard Gonzales

The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

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Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen speaks in front of the border wall separating Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego.

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DHS Chief Visits U.S.-Mexico Border, Defends Administration's Asylum Rules

8:36pm November 20, 2018

by Richard Gonzales

A day after a federal court blocks the Trump administration from changing asylum rules, DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen promises a legal fight.