Mexico Border Wall

MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border. We found cases of people who walked undetected through areas surveilled by advanced, AI-enabled towers and later died nearby, where…

Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and apprehend them? This story is part of Dying on Camera, a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego. Journalists in…

The Trump administration has started building the border wall through a west Texas section of the Big Bend region, marking the first major construction in an area of the U.S.-Mexico border where the administration's plans have met heavy opposition...Read More

They also "take copyright infringement very seriously", mind Image credit: Tetris Company / Rock Paper Shotgun Those terrible firebrands at the Tetris Company have publicly rebuked the US government for publishing a Tetris parody game that promotes the Trump administration's brutalising rhetoric about securing the border with Mexico. They've even…

Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today!  A protest camp in the small border town of Lochiel, Arizona, is seeking to stop federal contractors from building another portion of President Trump’s border barrier with Mexico. At the center of the protest camp is…

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We go now to southern Arizona, where protests against another section of border wall construction are ongoing. A protest camp, predominantly led by queer and fem activists in the small town of Lochiel, is seeking…

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…