Mexico Border Wall

President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he tours a section of the southern border wall, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Otay Mesa, Calif., as acting Homeland Secretary Kevin McAleenan listens, (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) President Donald Trump's response to a…

The Trump administration has run roughshod over environmental laws in a rush to build an unnecessary border wall. And in footage that emerged on Friday, construction efforts are just running roughshod over the environment, period. One of the first stretches …

When Paul Salopek was twenty-three, his motorcycle broke down on a lonely road in the sand near Roswell, New Mexico. He was on his way to find work at a fishery to eventually pay for a graduate degree in environmental biology; instead, he got a job at a local…

What do you want to ask the 2020 presidential candidates? Off Script, a new NPR series with presidential hopefuls, gives voters the chance to sit down with candidates and get answers to their questions. In this first installment of Off Script with NPR's Lul…

Impeachment proceedings for President Donald Trump could be “on the horizon,” Samantha Bee said on Full Frontal Wednesday night. But just because the Democrats are optimistic doesn’t mean there’s cause for them to celebrate. Rather than focusing on the impeac…

Government contractors erect a section of Pentagon-funded border wall along the Colorado River, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019 in Yuma, Ariz. Matt York/AP President Trump made building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico a cornerstone of his 2016 presidentia…

Frustrated with a record number of people seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border this spring, President Donald Trump at one point asked in a private meeting with close aides whether the U.S. could shoot migrants below the waist to slow them down. Intereste…

He continued: I may be tough on Border Security, but not that tough. The press has gone Crazy. Fake News! In the excerpt published Tuesday, Shear and Davis reported Trump "often" suggested surrounding his border wall with a moatlike trench and even asked ai…

Blind nationalism is the enemy of the environment. Consider President Donald Trump's infamous expanding border wall, a physical manifestation of the current administration's xenophobic, blatantly racist nationalism. The wall's intended purposeto exclude…

EPA Donald Trump reportedly told aides and cabinet ministers they were making him look like an idiot in an expletive-laden rant over his failure to clamp down on the nations southern border. In a March Oval Office meeting in which he called for entry to the…