by Jim Heath | May 28, 2019 | Headlines
A non-profit organization to fund Donald Trump’s border wall between the United States and Mexico has built its first mile-long section of wall. The wall, which spans just under one mile in length, went up over the weekend on private property running next to El...
by Jim Heath | May 24, 2019 | Headlines
President Trump’s efforts to build a wall along the southwest border hit a roadblock tonight when a federal judge in California granted a preliminary injunction that prevents the administration from redirecting funds under the national emergency declaration issued in...
by Jim Heath | May 23, 2019 | Headlines
President Trump has personally and repeatedly urged the head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to award a border wall contract to a North Dakota construction firm whose top executive is a GOP donor and frequent guest on Fox News, according to four administration...
by Jim Heath | Apr 20, 2019 | Headlines
The FBI arrested the head of an armed right-wing “patriot” group that had detained hundreds of migrants at the New Mexico border today for being a felon in possession of a weapon. Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, was arrested on a federal complaint charging him...
by Jim Heath | Mar 29, 2019 | Headlines
President Trump today threatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week, potentially disrupting millions of legal border crossings and billions of dollars in trade if Mexico does not stop immigrants from reaching the United States. A substantial closure could...