CBP has run up against concerted opposition from landowners, environmental groups, business owners and ranchers who say the remote region isn’t a high-traffic area for illegal immigration.
The Trump administration has started building the border wall in the Big Bend region of west Texas
An escalating confrontation on Native land southwest of Tucson threatens to upend decades of uneasy cooperation between the Tohono O’odham Nation and the United States.
President Trump has had a very busy week, making grand promises to pay Americans if Republicans win in the midterms. Also this week, the Trump administration proposed that immigrants without green cards no longer be included in the 2030 Census, nor will it ask questions about race or ethnicity. Our colleague Antonia Hylton joins The Weekend to discuss her recent reporting on the Texas border and give a preview of her brand new show “The Assignment” premiering today on MS Now at 1PM.
President Trump promised a border wall Mexico would pay for. Instead, the federal government is threatening to use eminent domain to seize land from private land owners including a five-generation ranching family near Big Bend National Park. The $46 billion project is turning lifelong conservatives, including a 26-year Border Patrol veteran now serving as county sheriff, against a president they supported, weeks before a midterm that could flip the Texas Senate and Governor's races. MS NOW's Antonia Hylton traveled to Texas to report for the latest installment of "Cities Under Siege."
The Tohono O’odham Nation, the Indigenous inhabitants of southwestern Arizona, consider the giant saguaro cacti to be sacred relatives with living spirits. Now, contractors building Trump’s border wall are uprooting them, and destroying many other Indigenous sites along the way. Jacob Soboroff sits down with Russ McSpadden from the Center for Biological Diversity and Verlon M. Jose, the Chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, to learn more.
The Trump administration's construction of a 30-foot-high border wall is resuming in Texas, 20 years after work to secure the southern border began. NewsNation's Ali Bradley reports on the progress of the wall and on opposition from some local residents and tourism officials. #Texas #border wall #Trump Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live" with Nichole Berlie. Weekdays starting at 12p/11C. NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
The agency had originally planned a 30-foot-high wall in the park, which shares a border with Mexico, but it scrapped those plans in favor of "limited" vehicle barriers with detection technology.
Elon Musk built a huge complex outside the city of Bastrop, population 14,000. Its residents now wonder what the historic SpaceX initial public offering might mean for them.