Federal officials announced $4.5 billion in new contracts for the construction of a "Smart Wall" along the southwest border.

New "Smart Wall" contracts will add primary and secondary border barriers plus waterborne obstacles, while CBP layers in hundreds of miles of detection technology where walls can’t go.

Arizona and Texas are expected to have more of the border wall constructed following recent actions from the federal government. In the Grand Canyon State, U.S. Customs and Border Protection gave ...

Border walls and new surveillance technology could be coming to the greater Big Bend region and the rest of Texas’ southern border as part of a sweeping “Smart Wall” plan announced by the Trump ...

A stretch of the border wall near Columbus, New Mexico along State Road 9. (Photo by Patrick Lohmann / Source NM) The U.S. government this week set aside environmental protection laws in order to ...

Migration pathways for animals will be further fragmented by the new additions to the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. This story was originally published by Sierra and is republished here by ...

President Donald Trump is swiftly moving forward with a keystone campaign promise from his first term: to build the border wall. Within six months of returning to the White House, Trump has been able ...

Crews install steel border barrier panels and supporting foundations during construction along the U.S.–Mexico border, work that typically involves heavy lifting, concrete placement and access-road ...

In one of the most remote parts of Arizona, a place where most of the residents are nonhuman and life in all its forms is abundant, something big is coming. Construction trucks power through the ...

Democrats' support for a southern border remains minimal compared to Republicans, though the percentage of left-leaning Americans who support expansion of a wall between the United States and Mexico ...

In August 2025, the Trump administration announced it would paint the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border black in the hopes the wall would become hotter and thus deter people from climbing it. A mural ...