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Members of Congress have stripped a provision requiring 300 more miles of tall fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border from a Department of Homeland Security appropriation bill, saying the funds needed to build the barrier would be better spent on alternative security measures.
It will cost taxpayers $6.5 billion over the next 20 years to maintain the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a government audit.
Police in the Mexican border city of Tijuana say they have arrested six men for stealing pieces of the U.S. border fence to sell as scrap metal.
Longtime New Mexico cattle rancher Judy Keeler is keenly aware of how tough it is to raise livestock in the dusty desert near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Nearly six months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence ordered by the Bush administration was supposed to be finished, its completion is in limbo while a judge waits answers to questions about private property in the fence's path.
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit to stop construction of the U.S.-Mexico border fence ordered by the Bush administration.
A nonprofit group founded by Ralph Nader has sued the government on behalf of a professor seeking documents about the border fence.
The Department of Homeland Security will allocate as much as $50 million to mitigate the environmental impact of the U.S.-Mexico border fence ordered by the Bush administration.
The government has completed 500 miles of fencing along the Southwest border, 170 miles short of its goal.
The head of the agency that oversees the Border Patrol said Wednesday he cannot promise to meet President Bush's goal of completing a Southwest border fence when he leaves office in January.
Flooding caused by a border security fence in southwestern Arizona shows the structure is being built too quickly and without regard for the environment, critics say.
Scrapers and bulldozers began filling a deep canyon Friday to make way for a border fence in the southwestern corner of the United States after 12 years of planning, environmental reviews and legal challenges.
The planned fence along the U.S.-Mexican border will no longer cut off a large chunk of a South Texas university, according to an agreement that the school and the federal government presented to a judge Thursday.
The U.S.-Mexico border fence will make life harder on some South Texas farmers, damage valuable wildlife habitat, impair views and generally become an obstacle to border life, the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged in an environmental study of the fence's impact.
The steel fence that the U.S. government wants to build along the Mexican border would do more than slice through the University of Texas' Brownsville campus and cut off the golf course from the rest of the school.
The Supreme Court said Monday it won't stand in the way as the U.S. extends its security fence hundreds of miles along the border with Mexico, allowing building to proceed full-speed despite claims that it harms the environment and animals who live in the area.
Texas mayors and business leaders filed a class-action lawsuit Friday alleging Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff hoodwinked landowners into waiving their property rights for construction of a fence along the Mexican border.
The federal government and a south Texas county have finalized an agreement to build a combination of levees and border fence, a project aimed at addressing national security concerns and local flood-control needs at the same time.
Illegal immigrants armed with torches, hacksaws, ladders and even bungee cords are making it around a section of the border fence hailed as the most efficient way to stop them.
A federal judge has approved an agreement requiring the government to consult two southern Texas colleges about plans to build a border fence on their joint campus.
With its motto "Where Yee-Hah meets Ole," Eagle Pass is a border town that prides itself on being both Tex and Mex, a community with many cultural and financial ties that bind it to its sister city across the Rio Grande.
Leaders in a small Texas border city felt blindsided Wednesday after learning that a judge had ordered public land turned over temporarily to the federal government as it works on a border fence.
The federal government sued Monday to gain access to land owned by a Texas city whose mayor has been highly critical of a planned U.S.-Mexico border fence.
Republicans cried foul Wednesday after Democrats cut money for a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border from a defense spending bill.
What's The Border Fence Good For? Subsidizing Mexican Scrap Metal EntrepreneursLast week, the Government Accountability Office released a depressing audit of the US-Mexico border fence we've been trying to put up for the past three years. The report caused about 8 hours of pretend outrage and was promptly forgotten.
Texas governor sends Rangers to Mexico borderSpecial teams of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday.
Cops: 6 held for stealing border fence pieces - Focus on Mexico- msnbc.com6 men held for stealing border fence pieces to use for scrap metal
Police: 6 nabbed stealing pieces of border fencePolice in the Mexican border city of Tijuana say they have arrested six men for stealing pieces of the U.S. border fence to sell as scrap metal.
Netanyahu says West Bank barrier to stay for now JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected on Wednesday any notion he would order Israel's barrier in the West Bank to be torn down in response to the absence of Palestinian attacks from the occupied territory.
Border fence completion eludes governmentNearly six months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence ordered by the Bush administration was supposed to be finished, its completion is in limbo as a judge awaits answers to questions about private property.
Enter Sand Dragon: The $40m Floating Mexican Border Fencen the dusty, hot land between Yuma, Arizona and Calexico, California, the U.S. Border Patrol faces regular attempts by Mexican drug smugglers trying to enter the land of the free quite illegally.
U.S.-Mexico fence building continues despite Obama's promise to review effects On the day of its first foreign policy discussions with Mexico, the Obama administration remains mum on whether it will honor a campaign promise to alter a Bush administration policy establishing a massive fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, including in federally protected areas …
Throwing a Magic Eye Over the BorderWhat the U.S. Mexico border fence has wrought.
Obama to deploy agents to Southwest borderThe administration is preparing to send federal agents as reinforcements against Mexican drug cartels, as officials consider using money from one immigration enforcement program toward crime.
Lawmaker challenges border security prioritiesThe top Republican on the House appropriations committee criticized the Defense Department on Tuesday for not making the situation in Mexico as big a priority as Afghanistan.
Border-Fence Project Hits a Snag Opposition From Environmentalists, Property Owners Slows Construction of Final Leg.
Economy Driving Mexican Immigrants Back HomeThe recession has many immigrants in the United States rethinking their annual trip back to Mexico for the holiday season. Hard times north of the border mean some immigrants are planning to go home for good.
Texas officials ask Obama to stop border fence Elected officials in El Paso are asking President-elect Barack Obama to scuttle federal plans to build hundreds of miles of fencing along the U.S. border with Mexico.
African migrants storm border of Spanish cityAfrican migrants armed with sticks and rocks stormed the border of a Spanish enclave in North Africa Monday but police using tear gas repelled them, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.
Golf of Mexico « NotionsCapitalU.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen told the Department of Homeland Security to go back to college, reports Christopher Sherman of Associated Press.
The Border Fence FollyThe border fence project has faced embarrassments--illegal immigrants employed to build the wall, a "Virtual Fence" project that cannot distinguish humans and vehicles from livestock and bushes--but those setbacks pale in comparison to its fundamental flaws.
Court OK's border fence despite environmental worry -- GOPUSAThe Supreme Court said Monday it won't stand in the way as the U.S. extends its security fence hundreds of miles along the border with Mexico, allowing building to proceed full-speed despite claims that it harms the environment and animals that live in the area.
ASU researchers find Latinos willing to pay for local public servicesIf these people are here illegally, they do not have any rights in the eye's of 80 percent of the American people. No matter what they propose to do in the way of paying for services, the majority are still illegal. The 'Rule of Law' must be preserved otherwise anarchy will reign.
Chertoff says F@#& the law, build the fenceChertoff, who has set aside some environmental restrictions to speed fence construction, said he didn't want to "get enmeshed in endless litigation" with environmentalists who he said opposed fencing, lighting and other improvements along the border that would help the Border Pat …
Homeland Security Stands by Its Fence Is the border fence a pipedream because it is deflecting the attention away from aggressively prosecuting employers who employ illegal aliens?
Chertoff Won't Let Environmentalists Stop Border FenceHomeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is taking heat from liberals and winning praise from conservatives for standing up to environmentalists who want to halt construction of the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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