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 ...

Just as Southwest wildlife defenders were grieving wall construction in critical jaguar corridors, the government planned ...

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 ...

(The Center Square) – Roughly $4.5 billion in contracts have been awarded to expand border wall construction, including adding advanced technological surveillance along the southwest border. Ten new ...

In December 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott traveled to South Texas to inaugurate the first 880-foot stretch of the state's newly constructed wall on its border with Mexico. At the press conference, with ...

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 ...

In December 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott traveled to South Texas to inaugurate the first 880-foot stretch of the state’s newly constructed wall on its border with Mexico. At the news conference, with ...

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In December 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott traveled to South Texas to inaugurate the first 880-foot stretch of the state’s newly constructed wall on its border with Mexico. At the press conference, with ...