Category: Border Wall

Local Sheriff Accuses Arizona Governor of ‘Illegal Dumping’ Over Border Wall Effort

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s attempt at constructing a border wall to stop an influx of illegal immigrants is now in legal jeopardy after a sheriff alleged Ducey has engaged in illegal dumping. Arizona’s border with Mexico largely has no barrier to stop illegal immigration, and the Migration Policy Institute estimates that over 200,000 illegal immigrants are present…


NTD Good Morning (Dec. 9): Twitter’s Secret Blacklist; Environmentalists Stall Construction of Arizona’s Makeshift Border Wall

Shadow banning of conservatives, blacklists, and a secret group for suppressing controversial accounts. All that and more in the eye-opening second ‘Twitter Files’ installment. Construction of Arizona’s makeshift border wall continues amid legal battles. Now environmentalists are taking action to stop it. The Canadian government is suspending a contract with a company partly owned by the…


Biden Administration Tells Arizona Using Shipping Containers to Plug Gaps in Border Wall Is Illegal

Using shipping containers to plug gaps in the U.S.–Mexico border wall violates federal law, a Biden administration official told top Arizona officials in a recent letter. “The unauthorized placement of those containers constitutes a violation of federal law and is a trespass against the United States,” Jacklynn Gould, a regional director for the U.S. Bureau…


Opioid Deaths Mount as States Battle Cartels, Drug Smugglers at US-Mexico Border

On Sept. 8, as Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey toured a wall of shipping containers stacked two-high along the state’s southern border in Yuma, he declared the barrier would stem the flow of illegal migration and drug smuggling from Mexico into the United States. A month earlier, Ducey, a Republican, signed an executive order authorizing the…


Lawsuit Using Environmental Law Against Biden Immigration Policies Can Proceed: Judge

A District of Columbia federal judge did not dismiss a lawsuit that relies on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to challenge Biden administration actions on immigration, marking an unmatched if still early success for the use of environmental law against illegal immigration. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, ruled on Aug. 11…


Eye In The Sky Drone Captures Mexican Drug Cartel Camp on Other Side of Arizona’s Border Wall

This is the fifth and final article in a series on illegal drug and human smuggling along Arizona’s border with Mexico. ARIVACA, Ariz.—The first gunshots seemed to come down the mountain on the other side of Arizona’s border fence with Mexico, just east of Arivaca, where rival drug cartel factions battle to the death for…


Drone Captures Images of Mexican Drug Cartel Camp

This is the fifth and final article in a series on illegal drug and human smuggling along Arizona’s border with Mexico. ARIVACA, Ariz.—The first gunshots seemed to come down the mountain on the other side of Arizona’s border fence with Mexico, just east of Arivaca, where rival drug cartel factions battle to the death for…


Foul Play Suspected After Makeshift Border Wall in Arizona Partly Toppled: Officials

Arizona officials suspect that foul play, and not harsh weather, resulted in a pair of double-stacked shipping containers being toppled last week days after contractors installed them as a makeshift border wall initiated by Gov. Doug Ducey. Ducey (R-Ariz.) on Aug. 12 ordered dozens of shipping containers to be placed in border fence gaps near Yuma, the state’s busiest…


Arizona Constructs Border Wall Out of Shipping Containers and Razor Wire; Actress Anne Heche Dies | NTD Good Morning

Arizona is taking matters into its own hands — Constructing a border wall out of double-stacked shipping containers and razor wire. Movie star Anne Heche’s story comes to a close, after her severe crash over a week ago. The actress has been taken off life support, following a compatible match for the organ donor. Former…


Biden Admin to Complete More of Trump’s Border Wall Project, Closing 4 Gaps

The Biden administration is set to close four wide gaps in the U.S.-Mexico border wall in an open area of southern Arizona near Yuma, to “address operational impacts” and “immediate life and safety risks.” The four gaps are within an incomplete border barrier project—the former Yuma 6 project area near the Morelos Dam, according to a…