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Posted Jan 25, 2021, 12:45 pm
Haleigh Kochanski
/Cronkite News
President Joe Biden made good on a campaign promise within hours of his swearing-in this week, ordering a pause in construction of the border wall and a plan for how to redirect wall funding. Opponents of the wall hailed the move but say more action is needed.... Read more»
Posted Sep 30, 2020, 2:50 pm
Claire Chandler
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The National Park Service cited public safety concerns for its decision this week to prohibit access to a sacred Tohono O’odham site, a move that comes amid rising tensions between border wall protestors and federal agents.... Read more»
Posted Jul 21, 2020, 5:48 pm
Jalpan Nanavati
/Cronkite News
Conservationists expressed anger over the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear an appeal to stop construction of the border wall. But they’re moving ahead while monitoring construction as it chews through land marked by towering saguaros and habitat of the endangered jaguar.... Read more»
Posted Jan 2, 2020, 5:36 pm
Harrison Mantas
/Cronkite News
The Trump administration waived environmental and other regulations on nearly one-quarter of Arizona’s border with Mexico last year to ease the way for border wall construction, a review of government documents shows.... Read more»
Posted Dec 26, 2019, 2:32 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
For much of 2019, the borderlands endured the fallout from decisions made years earlier, as the Trump administration pursued the Migrant Protection Protocols, attempted—and failed—to prosecute a humanitarian volunteer for harboring two men in the country illegally, and continued to pursue the president's quixotic promise to build a wall along the southwestern border.
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Posted Oct 3, 2019, 2:21 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
Vice President Mike Pence touted President Trump's trade deal with Mexico and Canada during a speech in Southern Arizona on Thursday, calling on Congress to pass the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement.... Read more»
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Posted Sep 18, 2019, 9:12 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Interior Department announced it will transfer 560 acres of public land to the U.S. Army, including nearly 230 acres along the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, for the construction of 70 miles of border wall.
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Posted Sep 17, 2019, 11:56 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The construction of the border wall in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument will threaten 22 archaeological sites, according to an internal National Park Service report.
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Posted Aug 25, 2019, 4:27 pm
Dylan Smith & Paul Ingram/TucsonSentinel.com
Contractors put up the first 30-foot panels of a new border wall on a two-mile stretch of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument this week, the first of three projects that will add "bollard" walls along Southern Arizona's wildlife refuges.... Read more»
Posted Aug 21, 2019, 1:15 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Contractors began replacing border fencing along a two-mile stretch of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument this week, the first of three projects that will add 30-foot high "bollard" walls along three of Southern Arizona's wildlife refuges. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 14, 2019, 3:11 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Trump administration is forging ahead with new border barriers in wildlife refuges in Southern Arizona despite environmentalists' objections, telling a court that one project will begin Monday with the removal of older fencing.... Read more»
Posted Aug 6, 2019, 12:38 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Environmental groups asked for an injunction to block new 30-foot high border barriers in three federal protected wildlife refuges in Southern Arizona, including a project across the state's "last free-flowing river," and another that would sever a binational wildlife refuge.
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Updated May 7, 2019, 7:34 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Border Patrol is seeking to construct nearly 63 miles of new border walls, rising up to 30 feet tall, along three protected wilderness areas in Southern Arizona.
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Posted Apr 26, 2019, 6:41 am
Keerthi Vedantam
/Cronkite News
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it will waive dozens of environmental, health and other laws to clear the way for construction on about 58 miles of border barriers, including 12 miles of fencing near Yuma.... Read more»
Posted Mar 14, 2019, 2:10 pm
Jodi Guerrero
/Cronkite News
The fastest land mammal in North America and a large-footed marsh bird in the Southwest have been listed as endangered for more than half a century and artists in Yuma want to let people know how their existence is threatened.... Read more»