Border Wall

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected Trump's call for conflict with the cartels after the violent attack near the U.S. border.

Smuggling gangs have reportedly used commercial power tools to cut through the new parts of Trump's controversial wall along the Mexican border.

The Washington Post reported that smugglers have been able to saw through President Donald Trump's border wall repeatedly.

The Trump administration has vowed to see at least 450 miles of border wall built before the end of 2020.

During a speech in Pittsburgh, President Trump claimed that US will be building a wall in Colorado. Officials in Colorado—a landlocked state with no borders near Mexican or Canadian borders—were amused by the statement.

After President Trump claimed that "20 world-class mountain climbers" tested his border wall design and could not surmount it, retired engineer Rick Weber built a replica and has invited elite climbers to try for themselves.

"What they were doing was destruction, not construction," said Kevin Dahl, the Arizona senior program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association.

The proposed route of the wall cuts across several national parks, blocking the path of hundreds of animal species and forever altering our cherished landscapes and ecosystems.

President Donald Trump reportedly wanted to use extreme measures to prevent migrants from entering the U.S., including shooting people in the legs to slow them down.

"Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate," a report states.

As of Monday, September 30, the Trump administration had seen 69 miles of border wall built.

"You can fry an egg on that wall," Trump said.

President Donald Trump visited a border wall construction site at Otay Mesa in San Diego, California on Wednesday.

"I would compare it to building a wall over your parents' graveyards. It would have the same effect," said Tohono O'odham Nation Chairman Ned Norris Jr.

"Cement your name in political history," President Donald Trump says in a campaign email sent out to supporters.

Remember how Mexico was supposed to pay for the wall? Now our commander in chief wants to take $3.6 billion from the U.S. military construction budget for his xenophobic vanity project.

If Republicans and Democrats alike didn't over-spend on the Pentagon for years, Trump wouldn't have piles of cash to plunder for his passion projects.

"President Trump is making it clear that if you come to the United States of America illegally, you will be removed," said U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency acting Commissioner Mark Morgan.

Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan appeared to struggle to explain why the wall needs to be painted, even if it means fewer miles of wall will be built.

While three schools are located in the United States or a U.S. territory, the others are on military bases overseas.

Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano accused Trump of unconstitutionally misappropriating funds for his border wall from federal money Congress did not approve.

During "Fox & Friends," host Brian Kilmeade said the Trump administration is taking "a small percentage" of money from military projects to fund the border wall.

Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Elaine McCusker has maintained that the projects affected by the funding diversion are "definitely not canceled," but could see "some delay."

President Donald Trump is "willing to cannibalize already allocated military funding to boost his own ego, and for a wall he promised Mexico would pay to build," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

"We have a multi-mission focus always at the Department of Homeland Security," said secretary Kevin McAleenan.

"No new wall has been built, none," Morning Joe host and former GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough pointed out.

"As we just reported, there's no new wall," Smith said, "only replacement for walls which were in need of repair or upgrade. Those are the facts."

Building a wall along the U.S. southern border was a keystone campaign promise in Trump's 2016 campaign, one he will be keen to meet before the 2020 election.

President Donald Trump has vowed to see 450 miles of border wall built by the end of 2020.

"I know that it's a big issue. People don't use the picnic area because they don't feel comfortable and that barrier would make the city safer," a city commissioner said.