New "Smart Wall" contracts will add primary and secondary border barriers plus waterborne obstacles, while CBP layers in hundreds of miles of detection technology where walls can’t go.

President Trump's administration is ramping up efforts to finish building the border wall before Biden's administration takes over. Here's why. The federal government said it needed Ociel Mendoza's ...

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HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — The State of Texas is putting a pause on new border wall projects but will complete the ones that have already started as it hopes for reimbursement from the federal ...

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - OCTOBER 18: Ryan Key (L) and Ryan Mendez of Yellowcard perform during 2025 When We Were Young festival at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on ...

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The Department of Homeland Security says it is waiving more environmental regulations and health rules in order to quickly build more border wall through wildlife ...

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The commissioners of a small, rural county in South Texas have voted to block the federal government from surveying for a border wall on public lands near a coveted ...

The Trump administration has given United States Customs and Border Protection the green light to move forward with border wall projects in South Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ...

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas—Orange survey flags waved in the wind as Alejo Clarke Jr. walked across the land he has hunted and fished all his life, but which is soon to be blocked off completely by an ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A South Texas city has removed a mural protesting the border wall along the southern border with Mexico following a threat by Gov. Greg Abbott to withhold up to $1.6 billion in road ...

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