U.S. Mexico Border Wall

• Judge urges Trump admin to help find parents separated from kids after crossing border

  A court filing revealed this week that researchers have been unable to track down the parents of 545 children — a number much larger than previously known and that drew outcry.

  Oct 22, 2020
  
• Trump can use $2.5B from Pentagon funds to build border wall: Supreme Court

  The U.S. Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

  World

  Jul 26, 2019
  
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• ‘Good chance’ U.S. and Mexico will make deal to avert new tariffs: Trump

  U.S. and Mexican officials were holding a third day of talks at the U.S. State Department Friday trying to hash out a deal that would satisfy Trump's demand that Mexico dramatically increase its efforts to crack down on migrants.

  Politics

  Jun 7, 2019
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• Trump vows to seek appeal of judge’s ruling against border wall

  U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr.’s order, issued Friday, prevents work from beginning on two of the highest-priority, Pentagon-funded wall projects — one spanning 74 kilometres in New Mexico and another covering 8 kilometres in Yuma, Arizona.

  Politics

  May 25, 2019
• Pope Francis says those who build walls will become ‘prisoners’ themselves

  Pope Francis said on Sunday that political leaders who want walls and other barriers to keep migrants out "will end up becoming prisoners of the walls they build."

  World

  Apr 1, 2019
• Democrats introduce measure to block Trump’s emergency declaration

  The move sets up a fight that could result in Donald Trump's first-ever veto.

  Politics

  Feb 22, 2019
• Donald Trump declares national emergency over border wall funding

  Declaring the emergency allows Trump to evoke other executive powers needed to get the funding without congressional approval.

  Politics

  Feb 15, 2019
• Canadian border more of a terror concern than Mexican for U.S.: report

  Most people with terroristic intent come into the country by air and are typically in the United States legally.

  Canada

  Feb 4, 2019
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• ANALYSIS: Donald Trump hasn’t backed down from border wall demands — because he can’t

  Trump has so inextricably linked the border wall to the shutdown that he has left himself no off-ramp to reopen the government and delay its construction, as some have suggested.

  Politics

  Jan 10, 2019
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• Trump walks out of meeting with Democrats as talks to end shutdown fall flat

  Trump called his meeting with Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday seeking to end the partial government shutdown a "total waste of time."

  World

  Jan 9, 2019