Mexico Border Wall

Construction crews building a border wall in New Mexico were ordered to stop drilling new wells after ranchers said that pumping groundwater to produce concrete could threaten their livestock amid a severe drought. The order comes as crews across the southern border race to complete one of Donald Trump’s key…

By: Mikella Schuettler, The Associated Press Posted: 6:39 PM CDT Monday, Aug. 3, 2026 Last Modified: 4:01 PM CDT Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026 Print Email Read Later PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump administration has ordered construction crews on a border wall to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico after…

There are no figures on how many children born to noncitizens have received Mexican birthright citizenship. TIJUANA, Mexico: Vivianne Petit Frere's brightly painted Haitian restaurant sits blocks from the towering U.S. border wall in Tijuana. Called Lakou Lakay, the name in Haitian creole means "home," and it reflects her family’s…

Editor’s note: This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative in partnership with Inside Climate News. Puente News Collaborative is a bilingual nonprofit newsroom and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border.  SUNLAND PARK, N.M.—On a Saturday morning in March, high school students, mountain bikers…

Skip to content Building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has been a signature issue for President Donald Trump since he first ran for office in 2016. Now, plans for a wall through the Big Bend region of West Texas are raising alarms with residents and officials alike. Last week…

Photographs by Jaime Rojo Text by Brian Kevin To appreciate how the Madrean Sky Islands earn their nickname, it helps to imagine the hawk’s-eye view. Looking down over the borderlands that stretch out across Arizona, New Mexico, and the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua, you would see a wide swath…

It was a balmy day in Del Rio, a Texas border town about 170 miles west of San Antonio, when a citizen conservationist looking for wildlife stumbled upon a striking rust and orange caterpillar with fleshy horn-like protrusions that are meant to scare predators. Eventually this larva would become the…

The "entire" U.S.-Mexico border wall will be painted black at the request of President Trump to deter illegal immigrant crossings, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Tuesday.What they're saying: "There will be more added to it as far as technology, cameras, sensors — we're also going to be painting it…

President Trump was accidentally caught in one of his favorite lies: that he finished the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, one of the marquee promises of his first term. “The Biden administration was auctioning off border wall materials, but we’re hearing now that … the auctioneer’s selling those…

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