Latest "US-Mexico border wall" stories

Migrants walk through a gap in the US-Mexico border wall as the sun rises.

Biden to return $2 billion diverted from Pentagon projects for border wall

The administration said it would return $2 billion taken from the Pentagon and use it for the construction projects for which the money was originally intended.

20 months ago

Appropriators to deny DoD budget flexibility in border wall spat

Fired-up House appropriators are expected to vote to reject the Pentagon’s requests for added budget flexibility over the president’s diversion of military funds to build his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall.

3 years ago

About a mile of new wall built each day along Mexico border, Pentagon says

The Army Corps of Engineers awarded about $2.5 billion in projects in April and May to build 129 miles of the border wall in New Mexico, Arizona and California.

By Military Times staff

3 years ago

450 miles of Pentagon-funded border wall by next year? In Arizona, it starts

On a dirt road past rows of date trees, just feet from a dry section of Colorado River, a small construction crew is putting up a towering border wall that the government hopes will reduce — for good — the flow of immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

3 years ago

DoD has obligated $450 million since April 2018 to send troops to US-Mexico border

The Pentagon is funding another section of the border wall, but Defense Secretary Mark Esper wouldn't say whether the project could be completely executed by the military.

By Meghann Myers

3 years ago

Supreme Court: Trump can use Pentagon funds for border wall

The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.

4 years ago