Tag: Border Wall

DeSantis Says Florida Willing to Finance, Organize Border Wall Construction

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on April 1 said that Florida is willing to offer workers and state resources to help finish the construction of a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border. “You need to have a wall because if you don’t, you’re always going to have an administration that doesn’t care about enforcing [border security],” DeSantis…


White House Spending $130,000 per Day to Store Trump’s Border Wall Materials

The Biden administration is spending about $130,000 per day “to do nothing” with former President Donald Trump’s unused border wall materials on the southern border, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. Fox News reported on March 16 that the Biden administration is paying private landowners to store 20,000 unused border wall…


New York Congressman Says Cartels Are ‘Controlling the Border’

Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) said cartels “are controlling the border,” following a recent trip to El Paso, Texas, with fellow colleagues on the House Homeland Security Committee. The New York congressman shared a video he recorded from a helicopter with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operation, showing “what appeared to…


House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Blasts Biden Administration Over Illegal Immigration, Fentanyl Crises

HEREFORD, Ariz.—House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said the Biden administration must be held accountable for allowing a worsening fentanyl crisis that is killing 300 Americans daily—the equivalent of an airliner crash every day. In his first congressional tour of Arizona’s southern border on Feb. 16, McCarthy said it was his sixth visit to the U.S.-Mexico…


Border Patrol Chiefs Say Walls Would Improve Border Security

A pair of Border Patrol sector chiefs called for more border wall construction during a hearing in the House Oversight and Government Accountability Committee on Tuesday. Gloria Chavez, the chief patrol agent for the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, and John Modlin, the chief patrol agent for the Tucson sector in Arizona, both called…


Arizona Farmers Say Illegal Alien Traffic Through Fields Contaminates Crops and Threatens Food Security

Arizona farmers are warning that illegal alien traffic through farmland is contaminating crops and threatening the nation’s food security. The border crisis is putting the nation’s food security in danger, two Arizona farmers with fields near the southern border told Fox News in an exclusive. President Joe Biden promised Arizona residents earlier this month that he…


Texas Builds Shipping Container Border Wall to Fight Illegal Crossings

Texas has bolstered security along the U.S.-Mexico border near El Paso by adding shipping containers along the Rio Grande in addition to a mile of razor-wire fencing set up earlier to prevent illegal crossings. The shipping containers started to be set up earlier this week, according to a statement on Thursday by Texas Gov. Greg…


Border Patrol Seeking Contractors for Construction of Border Wall

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is accepting bids of up to $400 million per task for the construction of barriers and other infrastructure along the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the solicitation notice posted on Dec. 20, the five-year “Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity” (IDIQ) contracts involve the design and construction of “border barriers, anti-climb features,…


Border Patrol Seeking Contractors for Construction of Border Barriers, Infrastructure

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is accepting bids of up to $400 million per task for the construction of barriers and other infrastructure along the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the solicitation notice posted on Dec. 20, the five-year “Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity” (IDIQ) contracts involve the design and construction of “border barriers, anti-climb features,…


Arizona Gov. Agrees to Dismantle Border Wall After Biden Admin Lawsuit

Arizona’s outgoing Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has agreed to dismantle a makeshift border wall constructed out of shipping containers in response to a lawsuit from the Biden administration. Court documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (pdf) on Dec. 21 show that Ducey’s administration has agreed to dismantle the barrier….