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Tunnel in Nogales

Posted on 2019-11-04 by the wall2019-10-28

This is the 123rd tunnel discovered in the Tucson Sector since 1990.

Illicit cross-border tunnel discovered in Nogales | Sonoran News

TUCSON – U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican Federal Police discovered an incomplete cross-border tunnel running under the streets of Nogales. The 29-foot-long tunnel was found during a routine bi-national tunnel sweep of the drainage system that serves both sides of the border. The entrance to the tunnel was located in the concrete floor of…

Sonoran News

Land for a border wall

Posted on 2019-11-03 by the wall2019-10-29

South Texas has a lot of private property. One of the larger barriers to building a border wall along the Rio Grande.

Trump administration has acquired only 16% of land needed for border wall in Texas

President's notorious campaign pledge is thrown into further doubt as private landowners prove less than obliging

The Independent

An example of some of those fighting for their land

Border wall goes up, landowners continue to fight

The Cavazos family is still taking a stance against the border wall as construction continues in other parts of the Valley. Freddy Cavazos, property owner along the US-Mexico border, is reminded of what his grandmother useD to say to him when we was kid. "She said never sell this property, our grandma kept telling us,"…

KGBT

Hugs not walls

Posted on 2019-11-02 by the wall2019-10-27

Hugs Not Walls happens after months of uncertainty

On Saturday morning, a mass of humanity descended upon the US-Mexico border in Chihuahuita, all sporting the same blue t-shirts like a uniform. However, the hundreds who gathered in the shadow of the wall that morning weren’t there for an invasion, but rather, a reunion.

KDBC

Reaction to the Colorado border wall

Posted on 2019-11-01 by the wall2019-10-26

Internet mocks Trump's 'Great Wall of Colorado' - CNN Video

President Trump's Colorado border wall is missing a border. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports that no wall could protect him from all the mockery.

CNN

Corporate construction

Posted on 2019-10-31 by the wall2019-10-26

Article pointing out the military focused companies reaping benefits from the border wall spending.

Trump’s Border Wall Is a Multi-Billion Dollar Corporate Handout

The militarization of the U.S. border has led to an increase in migrant deaths and a windfall for the security industry.

Truthout

Children’s home at risk

Posted on 2019-10-30 by the wall2019-10-26

Children's home potential site for border wall

After so many years of tranquility, Sacred Heart Children's Home could be a potential site for President Donald Trump's border wall.

www.kgns.tv

Border wall beneficial?

Posted on 2019-10-29 by the wall2019-10-26

Meanwhile the Trump administration argues a border wall is beneficial to the environment? This article takes a skeptical view.

I could see how perhaps vehicle barriers might be beneficial in keeping places roadless. I see much less argument for replacing vehicle barriers with pedestrian barriers or for redirecting floods or for maintaining clear zones.

Trump Administration Argues the Border Wall Is Good for the Environment, Actually

The border wall is an ecological disaster. Thousands of scientists have said as much. The federal government has said as much. And recent images of wall construction workers bulldozing cacti have shown it writ large.

Earther

Miles of border wall

Posted on 2019-10-28 by the wall2019-10-26

Vietnam metric was body count. Seems like “miles of border wall” is the current metric with potentially different accounting for what is built, what is renewed, etc.

www.newsweek.com

There do seem to be some small areas of new construction documented along with a good amount of retrofitting.

Border Wall going up in Donna

DONNA, Texas – Work crews near Donna are at work installing sections of the border wall slated for Hidalgo County. Work crews laying steel rebar in preparation for the border wall. The rebar …

KVEO-TV