by Jim Heath | Aug 23, 2021 | Headlines, Trump
When Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015 by saying “Nobody builds walls better than me”, it was to say the least a questionable claim. Trump insisted the “great wall” he planned for the southern US border, to keep out unwanted migrants, would be...
by Jim Heath | Jul 14, 2020 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Health
Nonessential travel between the US and its two closest neighbors — Canada and Mexico — is expected remain blocked until at least late August amid spikes in confirmed coronavirus cases in large swaths of the US. The Mexican Foreign Ministry announced today...
by Jim Heath | May 27, 2020 | Headlines
Since the beginning of the year, President Trump has boasted dozens of times about the extent of wall being built on the border with Mexico. On Jan. 3, he told a group of religious leaders that his administration was building “a very big, very powerful, very strong,...
by Jim Heath | Jan 29, 2020 | Headlines
Newly installed panels from the US border wall fell over in high winds today, landing on trees on the Mexican side of the border. Agent Carlos Pitones of the Customs and Border Protection sector in El Centro, California, said that the sections that gave way had...
by Jim Heath | Jan 29, 2020 | Headlines, Immigration
U.S. authorities today announced the discovery of the longest smuggling tunnel ever found on the Southwest border, stretching more than three-quarters of a mile from Tijuana, Mexico, into the San Diego area. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the tunnel...