by Jim Heath | Sep 5, 2019 | Headlines
During the 2016 election, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged that, as president, he would get Mexico to pay for the construction of his much-promised wall along the U.S. southern border. This week, his administration revealed that it would be paying for the wall instead...
by Jim Heath | Sep 3, 2019 | Headlines
With election year politics in play, Defense Secretary Mark Esper agreed today to free up $3.6 billion from the Pentagon budget for President Trump’s border wall by effectively defunding 127 military construction projects using emergency authorities. Trump is...
by Jim Heath | Jul 22, 2019 | Headlines
The Trump administration has not built a single new mile of border wall in the 30 months since President Trump took the oath of office — only replaced ‘dilapidated,’ existing fencing. The Washington Examiner reported that US Customs and Border Protection,...
by Jim Heath | Jul 1, 2019 | Headlines
Customs and Border Protection announced today it will launch an inspector general investigation into a private Facebook page for 9,500 current and former Border Patrol agents, following a report revealing that members of the group joked about migrant deaths and posted...
by Jim Heath | Jun 29, 2019 | Headlines
A federal judge has issued a ruling blocking the Trump administration from tapping billions of dollars in military funds to construct a wall on the United States’s southern border. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam issued the permanent injunction in a...