Mexico Border Wall

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…

Image copyrightAFP US President Donald Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs to slow them down, according to a new book. The book, by two New York Times journalists, says Mr Trump suggested extreme methods of deterring migrants. They included build…

President Donald Trump’s latest scandal has Twitter users wondering if he’s been channeling a certain “Austin Powers” supervillain.  The president privately discussed a number of extreme measures to prevent migrants from crossing the border, including shooti…

WASHINGTON A book excerpt published Tuesday describes a turbulent week inside the Trump administration in March as the president ordered staff to shut down the United States' 2,000-mile border with Mexico.  According to reporting from the New York Times, Pre…