Biden signs immigration orders aimed at undoing Trump-era policies, reuniting families
President Joe Biden signed executive orders Tuesday to address family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, border security and legal immigration, part of efforts to undo Trump’s policies.
Biden halts border wall construction; contractors told to stop building
President Joe Biden has ordered a "pause" on all border wall construction. During his campaign, Biden pledged not to build "another foot" of Trump's wall at the US-Mexico border.
Biden signs executive orders on COVID-19, immigration, rejoining Paris climate accord and WHO
In his first hours as president, President Joe Biden signed a series of executive actions that reversed his predecessor’s orders on immigration, climate change and handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump takes no responsibility for Capitol riot, says 25th Amendment is ‘zero risk’ to him
“The 25th Amendment is of zero risk to me, but will come back to haunt Joe Biden and the Biden administration,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday. “As the expression goes, be careful of what you wish for.”
Trump to visit U.S.-Mexico border in Texas to laud border wall
President Donald Trump is expected to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday to highlight his administration's work on the border wall.
Arizona border deaths hit 10-year high after record heat
A project that maps the bodies of migrants recovered from Arizona deserts documented 227 deaths in 2020, the highest in a decade after the hottest, driest summer in state history.
Arizona migrant border deaths on track for record amid extreme heat
After the hottest, driest summer in state history, authorities have recovered close to a 10-year record in the number of bodies of people who crossed from Mexico into Arizona’s deserts, valleys and mountains.
Damage from border wall: blown-up mountains, toppled cactus
Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President Trump’s border wall before his term ends.
Court OKs Trump using $3.6B in military money for wall construction
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a December 2019 ruling
Parents of 545 children separated at border can’t be found
The children were separated between July 1, 2017, and June 26, 2018, when a federal judge in San Diego ordered that children in government custody be reunited with their parents.
Supreme Court to review 2 cases involving Trump administration policies at US-Mexico border
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two cases involving Trump administration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Supreme Court to hear case over border wall funding
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's appeal of a lower court ruling that it improperly diverted money to build portions of the border wall with Mexico.
Arizona House rep seeks probe into police response to Native protest
The demonstrators protested Oct. 12 on Indigenous Peoples Day against the construction of the Trump administration’s border wall on sacred Native American land in southern Arizona.
40 miles of new border wall to be built in Texas
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that it has awarded two contracts to build roughly 40 miles of new border walls in Webb County, Texas.
Steve Bannon's trial on border wall scam charges set for May 2021
Bannon appeared via audio before U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres.
'Angel Mom' Mary Ann Mendoza pulled from RNC after retweeting anti-Semitic QAnon conspiracy
Mary Ann Mendoza, a mother who lost her police officer son in a crash involving an undocumented immigrant, is set to speak at the Republican National Convention.
Steve Bannon's partners had history of cashing in on Trump movement
The men charged along with former White House strategist Steve Bannon in a scheme to skim hundreds of thousands of dollars from a crowd-funded project to build a border wall came together through a shared devotion to Trump and a rich, sometimes checkered, history of trying to make money off his political movement.
President Trump visits Yuma during tour of 2020 election battleground states
Trump is on a tour of battleground states during this week's Democratic National Convention. After visiting the border wall, Trump will deliver remarks on what the White House says is "Joe Biden's failures on immigration and border security."
President Donald Trump visits Arizona and Iowa amid second day of Democratic National Convention
Trump headed for Arizona, one of the top 2020 battleground states, to press his case against his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, painting him as radically left and out of the political mainstream.
USFWS: New border wall near unique wetlands in Arizona endangered water supply
A federal agency says the wall is being built near unique wetlands at the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge and water being pumped from the wetlands for construction can endanger the fish in the ponds.