Mexico Border Wall

The people of Winchester, Oklahoma, are not happy. Last October, the Muscogee Nation began construction on a 25,000-square-foot meat-processing facility on the tribe’s lands in Okmulgee County. Known as Looped Square Meat Co., the facility is one of three meat-processing plants being built by tribal nations in Oklahoma with funds…

For all the talk of constructing a wall on America’s southern border over the past five years, one of the Trump-era notions less discussed outside the immigration policy world was that of a wall of paper—a near-insurmountable obstacle largely designed by nativist zealot Stephen Miller, built not out of steel…

Most of the nearly $10 billion that the Trump administration diverted from the armed services to build barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border will never be seen again, Pentagon and congressional officials confirmed Friday. That includes some of the money diverted from military construction funds and all the money former President Donald…

Not so long ago, Liz Cheney was being presented as “a new thought leader for the GOP” and even the second coming of Margaret Thatcher. As Donald Trump continued to spread wild lies about the 2020 election, political reporters upheld Cheney as a voice of reason and a beacon around…

In February’s Senate trial to impeach and convict Donald Trump for the crime of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, the modern GOP had one last shot at rescuing its long-battered image as a responsible governing party. It might have reclaimed something of its former standing…

Editor’s Note (3/3/21): The shocking recent blackouts in Texas left millions of people without electricity and clean water, caused dozens of deaths and inflicted economic damage estimated at tens of billions of dollars. Blame for the grid’s failure has widely fallen on the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, along with…

Ted Cruz is being lambasted on social media for supporting Donald Trump's border wall after he fled to Mexico in the middle of a humanitarian crisis, with Texas hit by freezing temperatures and continuing blackouts. The senator found himself at the center of a media frenzy on Thursday after photos…

The US side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along the Mexico east of Nogales, Arizona (AP)A pastor who runs shelters in Mexico at the US border, has accused American border patrol agents of sending injured migrants back without providing them medical support, calling it a “new low” for the country.…

In a much-anticipated move, the Biden administration on Friday announced it would start allowing some asylum-seekers, forced to stay in Mexico under a 2019 Trump-era policy, to come to the United States while their cases are processed. Immigrant justice advocates and asylum-seekers have long fought to abolish the “remain in…

The filmmakers of “At the Ready” — a documentary following students training to become Border Patrol officers — know how timely their film is, but they didn’t want to let recent politics shape the doc entirely. “At the Ready” also takes a look at how the Trump Administration changed policies…