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Scrap metal

Posted on 2020-10-10 by the wall2020-10-03

Contractors, scrap dealers selling border fence steel in Arizona and Mexico

On the dusty streets of Sonoyta, Sonora, these posts are not on the border anymore. They are for sale in scrap yards.

AZFamily

The wall that covid built

Posted on 2020-10-09 by the wall2020-10-03

Opinion | The Wall That Covid-19 Built Is Keeping Me From My Mom

Being a family separated by borders is never easy, but this year is different.

www.nytimes.com

Mexico paying for the wall

Posted on 2020-10-08 by the wall2020-10-02

Trump's lies about Mexico funding his wall are getting weirder

He also falsely claimed on Wednesday that the wall would be completed 'very soon.'

The American Independent

Border wall prototypes

Posted on 2020-10-07 by the wall2020-10-01

Ashes to ashes…

Border wall prototypes now nothing but abandoned rubble

The border wall prototypes are now just piles of rubble abandoned in a field along the border southeast of San Diego.

BorderReport

More border wall contracts issued

Posted on 2020-10-06 by the wall2020-10-01

Racing against the election

2 new border wall contracts valued at half a billion dollars issued for Laredo, Texas

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Two construction contracts valued at nearly half a billion dollars have been awarded to build 40 new miles of border wall in the South Texas city of Laredo, U…

BorderReport

Quitobaquito Springs road

Posted on 2020-10-05 by the wall2020-09-30

NPS closes route to Quitobaquito Springs

Closure comes a day after O'odham leaders held a cross-border ceremony at the spring.

www.azpm.org

Feds cite safety for Quitobaquito closing; critics see other motives | Cronkite News - Arizona PBS

The National Park Service cited public safety concerns for its decision this week to prohibit access to a sacred Tohono O'odham site, a move that comes amid rising tensions between border wall protestors and federal agents.

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS

Scorched earth

Posted on 2020-10-04 by the wall2020-09-26

'It's Like A Scorched Earth': Photographer Documents Border Wall Construction, Environmental Impact

STEVE GOLDSTEIN: What do you do when a global pandemic upends your business? Well, for one wedding and concert photographer from Charleston, South Carolina, the answer is on the Arizona border.

KJZZ

Border wall lawsuit

Posted on 2020-10-03 by the wall2020-09-26

Federal appeals court gives border wall spending lawsuit another chance

A federal appeals court on Friday reversed course in the border wall lawsuit, delivering a potential win to House Democrats who sued over President Donald Trump's transfer of Defense Department funds to construct the wall.

CNN

New documentary

Posted on 2020-10-02 by the wall2020-09-26

New York filmmaker shoots documentary in Brownsville on migration issues

On a sunny day in September, the Carlotta Petrina was transformed into the set for a documentary on migration issues as crew members unloaded their cameras, lights and more equipment from the vehicles while members inside moved the furniture as they got ready to interview the first person minutes after. Bob Bilheimer, the documentary filmmaker…

The Brownsville Herald

Detention billboards

Posted on 2020-10-01 by the wall2020-09-26

New Billboards Call on ICE to Stop Detaining Families and Children

Residents of Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and the Washington D.C. area will see billboards across their states and districts for four weeks calling on the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement …

Amnesty International USA