Mexico–United States border wall - Wikipedia
The border from the Gulf of Mexico to El Paso, Texas, follows the Rio Grande, a natural barrier. The barrier is on both urban and uninhabited sections of the border, where the most illegal crossings and drug trafficking have been observed in the past.
Migrants are falling off Trump's 30-foot steel border wall into the …
EL PASO, Texas — When President Donald Trump’s commissioner of Customs and Border Protection toured a stretch of the new 30-foot high border wall here in August 2020, he told the local...
Federal government completes 131 miles of border wall in El Paso …
Jan 5, 2021 · EL PASO, Texas -- The federal government has completed a total of 131 miles of border wall in the El Paso sector, the acting commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced in...
New video shows migrants rushing portion of border fence
Mar 21, 2024 · New video shows migrants rushing a portion of the US border fence in El Paso, Texas. The circumstances that led to the incident are unclear. CNN’s Ed Lavandera reports from the scene.
Migrants falling off 'unclimbable' southern border wall fill hospitals
Nov 21, 2023 · EL PASO, Texas – It wasn't until Alma Zavala was at the top of the 30-foot steel border fence that she realized how far she had to fall. "I hugged the wall," she said. "My hands were bleeding...
Gov. Abbott’s border wall will take around 30 years and $20 billion
Jul 3, 2024 · Three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would take the extraordinary step of building a state-funded wall along the Mexico border, he has 34 miles of steel bollards to show for it.
Border Wall Falls Leave Migrants With Devastating — and Costly ...
Nov 14, 2023 · Ambulances rush them daily to hospitals in El Paso, San Diego and Tucson, Ariz., writhing in pain — bones poking out of arms and legs; skulls cracked; spines shattered.
2 miles of border fencing installed in El Paso area as migrants ... - CNN
Dec 27, 2022 · Since the first length of fencing went up last week along the Mexican border near El Paso, the Texas National Guard has installed more than two miles of the barricade and is expected to build...
The Biden administration is building a controversial part of the …
Oct 8, 2023 · The Biden administration is moving forward with a controversial plan to build a new section of the border wall in Texas. It's waiving more than two dozen federal environmental laws to add 20...
El Paso hospitals see surge in severe border wall injuries
Apr 28, 2022 · An estimated 300 migrants suffered injuries after falling from the 30-foot border wall in West Texas and New Mexico last year.