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A massive contract for $400 million was awarded to Fisher Sand and Gravel, a contractor that President Donald Trump reportedly pushed the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to hire, to build a span of new border wall through the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in Yuma County, Ariz. The Defense…
Scott Warren, a well-known and longtime aid worker who helps migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border, was found not guilty Wednesday of “harboring illegal immigrants.” Warren was facing a maximum of 10 years in prison for his humanitarian aid work. Warren had been charged with two harboring charges by the federal…
Billions more dollars in military funding could soon be funneled to the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Senior White House officials would send the money next year for further construction. Using military money is their way of going around ample congressional opposition to the border wall and using taxpayer money…
Contractors with white ancestry earned $311,000 two years ago — as a minority-owned company, the Los Angeles Times reports. When the St. Louis, Missouri mayor announced the contract the town made with a Native American-owned company to demolish an old shoe factory, the community welcomed it. The area was still…
Only a week after the heartbreaking and tragic image of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his two-year-old daughter Valeria drowned in the Rio Grande began circulating online, another two-year-old girl has been swept away in the dangerous waters. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) said, in a statement released on Tuesday…
While President Donald Trump gives engineers directions on how he wants the wall on the southern border to look, courts are considering the billions of dollars it would cost. A federal judge in Oakland, Calif., is considered arguments in two cases on Friday that are trying to block the White…
Larry Mitchell Hopkins, a 69-year-old felon, appears in federal court today after he was arrested on Saturday for leading a group that has been kidnapping migrants at gunpoint on the southern border. Hopkins was arrested in Sunland Park, N.M., on charges of being a felon in possession of firearms and…
In video footage that has gone viral, children waiting to cross into the U.S. from Mexico were seen having numbers written on their arms. The scene was reminiscent of Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Nazi Germany during World War II where Jews, Blacks, homosexuals, and other people were tattooed with…
A Mexican man being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody has died, seemingly by suicide, ICE announced Thursday. He is the eighth person to die in ICE’s custody this year. Efrain De La Rosa, 40, was pronounced dead at a Georgia hospital late on July 12, ICE said…
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday saying migrant families will no longer be separated at the border. But the order continues spreading the lie that Trump was simply enforcing the law by separating families. Also absent from Trump’s order is what he plans to do about the 2,342…
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