Tag: Mexico

A new survey found 46 percent of voters do not want Congress to agree to build additional border wall barriers in exchange for a permanent DACA solution. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Nearly half of voters oppose combining border wall with DACA solution

Anna Giaritelli · January 10, 2018 1:01 pm

Republicans to propose $30 billion to fund border wall

Pete Kasperowicz · January 10, 2018 2:40 am

"Last year [2016], morale was probably about as low as it could get. So, with the new administration showing the support that they're showing, it's helped, but it can only do so much," Jon Anfinson, president of Local 2366 in the National Border Patrol Council, told House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security Chair Martha McSally, R-Ariz., on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Border Patrol union: Morale was ‘low as it could get’ under Obama, but Trump’s support has ‘helped’

Anna Giaritelli · January 9, 2018 7:09 pm

The number of assaults against Customs and Border Protection was 847 in fiscal year 2017, which ended Oct. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Assaults on border agents going unpunished: Union official

Anna Giaritelli · January 9, 2018 5:01 pm

National Border Patrol Council chief Brandon Judd blasted Congress for failing to approve President Trump's year-old executive order to hire 5,000 additional Border Patrol agent.

Border Patrol union: Agents we hire this year will be halfway to retirement before we meet Trump’s goal of hiring 5,000 agents

Anna Giaritelli · January 9, 2018 4:09 pm

Four companies have been selected to build prototypes for President Trump's border wall, and they have all been stuck in limbo on how the government plans to address the issue of eminent domain. (John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool)

Beltway Confidential

Border wall contractor: White House hasn’t issued guidance on eminent domain

Siraj Hashmi · January 9, 2018 1:00 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday that immigration reform and government spending talks between lawmakers are going well, in spite of President Trump butting in intermittently. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Chuck Schumer: Trump making ‘unreasonable demands’ for border wall

Al Weaver · January 8, 2018 9:31 pm

The Fisher Sand and Gravel Company is offering to do all of the legwork for the federal government, even at a reduced cost to what Trump requested. (AP Photo/Elliott Spagat)

This construction company says it can build 700 miles of Trump’s border wall for $12 billion

Anna Giaritelli · January 8, 2018 5:01 am

"I have a very good relationship with Mexico. We're negotiating NAFTA, see how that goes, yes, but Mexico will pay, in some form, Mexico will pay for the wall," President Trump said at a press conference in Camp David Saturday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump reignites ‘Mexico will pay for the wall’ cause in 2018

Katie Leach · January 6, 2018 7:21 pm

Contractors have already completed eight prototypes of President Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico, triggering a period of rigorous testing to determine if they can repel sledgehammers, torches, pickaxes, and battery-operated tools. (John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool)

Top Democrat sounds government shutdown alarm after White House demands additional $18 billion for border wall

Diana Stancy Correll · January 6, 2018 12:29 am

The Cirrus SR22, similar to the plane pictured, took off from Wiley Post Airport near Oklahoma City and was supposed to fly to Georgetown, Texas. (Creative Commons photo/Jet Request)

National Security

Coast Guard searching for animal rescue plane that appears to have crashed into the Gulf of Mexico

Melissa Quinn · January 4, 2018 6:06 pm

Contractors have completed eight prototypes of a border wall. President Trump and Republicans have insisted on funding for a wall, but that has been a nonstarter with Democrats. (Arik Dashevsky/Washington Examiner)

Trump: Democrats know there will be no DACA deal without the border wall

Mandy Mayfield · December 29, 2017 1:54 pm