Border Wall

The DHS attributed the levee damage to construction undertaken during former President Donald Trump's administration, which the DHS said "blew large holes" in the levees.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a press release last month warning about damage to flood barrier systems in Texas' Hidalgo County, which it attributed to the construction of former President Donald Trump's border wall.

"The federal government needs to act, whether it's building the wall or putting back into place the laws that were there in the last administration because what is happening now is out of control," Texas rancher Stephanie Crisp-Canales told Fox News host Dana Perino.

Kolfage was indicted by a federal grand jury in Florida and charged with filing a false tax return with the knowledge that his real income was in "materially in excess of that amount."

In the latest episode of ASP Counterpoint, Representative Judy Chu (D-Calif.) calls the southern border wall an ineffective waste of taxpayer dollars, noting that "a section of Trump's border wall in south Texas cost $20 million a mile but has been crossed by people with $5 ladders."

Adrian Jr. Carrillo says they put up the so-called border in response to complaints made by their "racist neighbor."

"We need to reinstitute the 'Stay in Mexico' policy. We need to make sure that the border wall is constructed. We need to start building it again," the congressman from Georgia said.

"While construction remains paused, there is a review underway, taking a look at the funds that had been allocated," said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.

While Biden has made it a priority to cancel border wall construction, some areas may still be worked on to fill leftover gaps in the barrier, the homeland security secretary said.

If we learned anything during the last five years, it's to think critically about language used by people in power—words have real-world consequences.

In a world of performative allyship, performative morality, performative liberalism and pro-life initiatives, we can fight back by raising awareness and supporting the work of people working on the ground.

"A lot of people want me to. Border Patrol and all the people at ICE, they want me there, they asked me to go," he said.

"These workers literally dropped their hammers and were immediately unemployed," Kilmeade said. "A wall we paid for!"

The Biden administration plans to lease the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas to house 3,000 immigrant teenagers, the Associated Press reported, in an effort to relieve pressure at the southern border caused by a wave of unaccompanied children.

Over the past fiscal year, Customs and Border Protection saw close to 30,000 children attempt to cross the border. Nearly 3,000 of these children were below the age of 12. Of the 9,600 children the Border Patrol encountered in February, 98.5% of them came unaccompanied.

"I think [the wall] has made us more effective," U.S. Border Patrol Public Information Officer Jacob MacIsaac told Newsweek. "It's made the job more manageable."

In a video posted to his Facebook on Tuesday, Slaton said, "Just wanted to let you know I filed House Bill 2862. This will complete the border wall and name it the Donald J. Trump wall. And as you know we have a crisis on our border."

No one can deny the importance of effective border management.

"The spiraling tsunami at the border is overwhelming local communities, depleting budgets, crowding hospitals, and taking jobs from legal American workers," Trump said in a lengthy statement. "When I left office, we had achieved the most secure border in our country's history."

Migrants who fell trying to climb the 30-foot wall at the U.S.-Mexico border said agents refused to provide medical aid on American soil.

With more visas from the lottery and H-2A programs, as well as higher coffee prices, we could reduce illegal migration from Northern Triangle nations substantially, without increasing overall legal immigration.

The Biden administration halted construction on the border wall through executive action on day one.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the pause on deportation would "seriously and irreparably harm the State of Texas and its citizens" in a Thursday letter.

There could be more than 200 miles of federally-funded border wall under construction, or in pre-construction.

President Joe Biden must apply muscle as well as heart at the border or his best plans will fall apart.

During an interview with Fox News on Monday, Trump campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley said the border wall is "one of the greatest achievements this president has had.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic has cost Americans over $16 trillion.

With the Trump administration's days in office waning, we are set for the messy and divisive politics of immigration to return to national preeminence.

U.S. taxpayers could save billions if President-elect Joe Biden fulfills his promise of ending construction on Donald Trump's border wall when he takes office.

President Donald Trump pledged to build 450 miles of new wall along the country's southern border by the end of the year.