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Film about border wall prototypes

Posted on 2020-02-07 by the wall2020-02-01

The Absurd Theatrics of the Border Wall

At the U.S.-Mexico border, eight winning prototypes of Donald Trump’s design contest must withstand a durability test.

The Atlantic

Wall blows down

Posted on 2020-02-06 by the wall2020-01-30

Winds only gusting to 37mph

Strong wind blows over part of Trump's border wall

The fence is part of the US president's attempt to improve the barrier along the US-Mexico border.

BBC News

Longest smuggling tunnel ever found

Posted on 2020-02-05 by the wall2020-01-30

Longest-ever border smuggling tunnel found stretching between Tijuana and San Diego, officials say

U.S. authorities discovered the longest smuggling tunnel ever found along the Southwest border.

Fox News

Tent court

Posted on 2020-02-04 by the wall2020-01-28

Inside the tent courts on the US-Mexico border

While they wait in Mexico, migrants have had to weather difficult and dangerous conditions in encampments along the border, living under tents or tarps and using makeshift bathrooms.

CNN

Protests at the San Pedro River

Posted on 2020-02-03 by the wall2020-01-28

Hundreds protest planned border wall across the San Pedro River

Many are worried about how the proposed barrier would impact a vital waterway and wildlife migration corridor.

www.azpm.org

Friendship park

Posted on 2020-02-02 by the wall2020-01-26

Garden bulldozed by Border Patrol replanted

SAN DIEGO —The Border Patrol, reacting to a breach it discovered in a steel-pole border wall believed to be used by smugglers, gave activists no warning this month when it

avpress.com

Nogales tunnel

Posted on 2020-02-01 by the wall2020-01-26

Nogales seems to be a tunnel town

Border Patrol seizes over 100 pounds of meth in Nogales tunnel

Two Mexican nationals face federal drug smuggling charges Friday night.

KVOA

Sasabe apprehension

Posted on 2020-01-31 by the wall2020-01-26

Perhaps not as many as last year, but still seeing some large groups.

Over 100 immigrants stopped in rural town southwest of Tucson

102 immigrants were stopped in Sasabe, Ariz. on Tuesday night as they attempted to cross over into the United States.

KVOA

Santa Teresa Wall

Posted on 2020-01-30 by the wall2020-01-26

Wall being built west of Santa Teresa. Saw this on recent trip.

New section of border wall being built in New Mexico

Construction of a new section of the border wall is underway in southern New Mexico. Construction of the border wall began in August. More than 6 miles of the 46 miles has been completed. “If there is some sort of type of incursion or someone wants to come over, it’s going to be very challenging,”…

KFOX

Despite opposition, border wall construction gains ground in New Mexico

SANTA TERESA, New Mexico (Border Report) — An imposing 30-foot steel barrier is rising above the southern New Mexico desert, part of the Trump administration’s push to wall-off the Mexi…

KTAB - BigCountryHomepage.com

Ocelots

Posted on 2020-01-29 by the wall2020-01-26

Population of endangered ocelots discovered In Sonora near Arizona border

Having a breeding population of the endangered animals this far north is "pretty exciting," one researcher said.

Arizona Daily Star