A construction contract was awarded Mar. 18, using money from “One Big Beautiful Bill,” to build wall through the National Butterfly Center and the Santa Ana refuge, among other once-protected sites.

Our top story: https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-border-wall-rio-grande-valley/

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“It’s showing that the government is willing to literally waste billions upon billions of dollars to make these useless walls … instead of taking that exact same money and making sure that everybody has housing or clean water and food and education.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-border-wall-rio-grande-valley/

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Our top story: “For months, I’ve been documenting the Department of Homeland Security and their masked contractors installing buoys in the Rio Grande.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-border-wall-rio-grande-valley/

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The #Trump administration’s present plans to add another 90 or so miles of new and replacement wall would finish sealing off the region from the Brownsville Ship Channel all the way up to Falcon Dam, completing the job that George W. Bush and Barack Obama started. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-border-wall-rio-grande-valley/

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New today: “The Department of Homeland Security is not being clear intentionally about what their plans are, what they’re deploying in the region, and so it’s up to us in the community to track and document and report on it. This is how we fight back.” https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-border-wall-rio-grande-valley/

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A construction contract was awarded March 18, using money from the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” to build wall through the National Butterfly Center and the Santa Ana refuge, among other once-protected sites.

New from Michael Gonzalez, copublished with The Border Chronicle: https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-border-wall-rio-grande-valley/

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#SCOTUS indicated sympathy Tuesday toward the #Trump admin’s defense of the govt's authority to turn away #asylum seekers when ofcls deem #US - #Mexico #border crossings too ​overburdened.

The legal dispute centers on a policy called " #metering" that the Trump admin may seek to revive after it was dropped by Joe #Biden in 2021. The policy allowed US #immigration ofcls to stop asylum seekers at the border & indefinitely decline to process their claims.

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-weigh-trumps-power-limit-asylum-processing-2026-03-24/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

A construction contract was awarded March 18, using money from the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” to build wall through the National Butterfly Center and the Santa Ana refuge, among other once-protected sites.

New from Michael Gonzalez, copublished with The Border Chronicle: https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-border-wall-rio-grande-valley/

#border #Texas #politics #USpol #immigration #Trump #news #SouthTexas