Published by Customs and Border Protection on September 19, 2024.
The status of border wall-building plans funded with 2020 and 2021 Homeland Security appropriations funds. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on February 22, 2024.
A review of major DHS acquisition programs, including 10 CBP programs supporting border security operations.
Published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on September 5, 2023.
Finds that Trump-era border wall “construction harmed some cultural and natural resources, for example, by blasting at a tribal burial site and altering water flows.” (Link at gao.gov)
Published by the Consulate of Mexico in San Diego on January 27, 2023.
Lists 100 Mexican nationals killed, and 555 injured, while crossing from the Tijuana area to the San Diego area 2020-2022. (Original link)
Published by the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights on October 27, 2022.
Articles and analyses from “frontline leaders and organizers with direct experience, both in theory and practice, of migrant human rights.”
Published by the Center for Biological Diversity on September 8, 2022.
Reproduces documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, indicating that the Army Corps of Engineers used “a narrow emergency exemption” to resume some border wall construction after President Biden called a halt to wall-building in 2021.
Published by the Wildlands Network on July 25, 2022.
Details sites along the U.S.-Mexico border that are in most dire need of environmental restoration following border wall construction.
Published by the Nation on May 11, 2022.
Concerns about surveillance technologies that the Biden administration is increasingly installing along the border.
Published by CBP on April 29, 2022. (Español)
Maps and environmental plans for border wall construction, using funds appropriated for 2020, in and around Laredo, Texas. (Link at cbp.gov / enlace en cbp.gov)
Published by the San Antonio Express-News on March 27, 2022.
CBP plans to build up to 86 miles of new levee wall along the border in south Texas. Community members respond.
Published by WOLA on March 21, 2022.
A photo essay from a WOLA staff visit to the Texas-Mexico border, from Del Rio to Brownsville including four Mexican border cities.
Published by the Washington Post on February 19, 2022.
“In the year since President Biden halted border wall construction,” the Post reports, “his administration has been developing plans to put its own stamp on Trump’s pet project, principally by remediating some of the environmental destruction.”
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in January 2022.
A presentation mapping out CBP’s post-Trump administration plans to close border wall gaps and perform environmental remediation in Arizona. (Link at storymaps.arcgis.com)
Published by Customs and Border Protection on January 20, 2022.
Maps and other information about proposed border wall segments that would be built in south Texas with prior-year Homeland Security appropriations funds, which the Biden administration has asked Congress to rescind. (link at cbp.gov)
Published by Mijente, Just Futures Law, and No Border Wall Coalition on October 28, 2021.
Lays out concerns about tools used for “digital wall” surveillance, biometrics, and hacking and tracking of internet communications.
Published by the Department of Homeland Security on June 9, 2021.
Outlines of a plan, foreseen in a proclamation issued shortly after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, to cease border wall construction and close out existing projects. (Link at dhs.gov)
Published by WOLA on February 10, 2021.
The state of wall-building and funding, and options for the Biden administration to cease all construction and repair at least some of the damage.
Published by WOLA on January 22, 2021.
This compendium of recommendations includes an extensive “migration and border policy” section.
Published by The Intercept on October 31, 2020.
A look at the harms that border wall construction has inflicted in south Texas.
Published by WOLA on October 29, 2020.
A response to the Trump administration’s celebration of completing a 400th mile of border wall.
Published by Bellingcat on October 1, 2020.
Using open-source data and imagery tools, this study documents how border wall construction is harming a fragile desert oasis in a southern Arizona protected area.
Published by CBS 60 Minutes on September 27, 2020.
An investigation of the section of privately built border wall in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, paid for by an organization whose management is now under indictment for fraud.
Published by The Washington Post on September 14, 2020.
A profile of the owner of Fisher Sand and Gravel, a company that has used connections to the President to gain a large share of border wall construction contracts.
Published by the U.S. Department of Justice on August 20, 2020.
An indictment, on fraud charges, of principals from “We Build the Wall,” a non-profit that sought to build sections of private border wall using donors’ money. (Link at justice.gov)
Published by the Washington Office on Latin America on July 27, 2020.
An overview of key measures in the House of Representatives’ version of the 2021 DHS appropriation, including cutting border wall spending, defunding “Remain in Mexico,” reducing ICE detention, and others.
