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President Donald Trump is swiftly moving forward with a keystone campaign promise from his first term: to build the border wall. Within six months of returning to the White House, Trump has been able ...

The federal government’s $4.5 billion "Smart Wall" project will add hundreds of miles of high-tech border security, including detection systems through Big Bend National Park. Homeland Security ...

Border walls and new surveillance technology could be coming to the greater Big Bend region and the rest of Texas’ southern border as part of a sweeping “Smart Wall” plan announced by the Trump ...

The Trump administration is fast-tracking wall construction along a critical section of the U.S.-Mexico border, the latest move by the White House to prioritize immigration enforcement. The Department ...

MISSION, Texas (Border Report) — The sounds of construction cut through this rural section of the border on Wednesday as crews put segments of new, taller border bollards on a section of wall that was ...

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