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.”
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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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Last week: As we walked, we chanted, “Kids do not belong in cages!” We sang songs about liberation, and how—as James Baldwin famously wrote—”all of the children are always ours.”

Our march was a political action, a spiritual practice, a grief ritual, a block party, and a walking love letter to our communities, all rolled into one. https://www.texasobserver.org/we-must-end-family-detention-in-texas/

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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/

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