Trump administration awards billions in border ‘Smart Wall’ contracts in push to target illegal immigration

The Trump administration announced on Friday that it awarded billions of dollars in contracts to expand construction of the ...

Will deployment of the Texas National Guard affect border wall operations?

Days after Gov. Greg Abbott announced he authorized troops of the Texas National Guard to deploy to Chicago, KXAN received ...

DHS issues $4.5B in border wall, water barrier contracts

The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday it has awarded $4.5 billion worth of contracts to build 230 new miles of ...

Insight: Strange bedfellows: Laredo's millionaires, nuns and muralists battle border wall

Former U.S. Border Patrol agent Daniel Perales spent hours over the years crouched at the mouth of the Zacata Creek, a tributary of the Rio Grande, listening for the snap of carrizo cane as border ...

Texas border will see major share of new $4.5 billion "Smart Wall" funding

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection have approved more than $4.5 billion in new construction contracts for Smart Wall ...
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Three contracts awarded to build 87 miles of new Smart Wall along the border in El Paso Sector

DHS and CBP announced ten new construction contracts totaling $4.5 billion to add hundreds of miles of Smart Wall along the border. Three of the contracts are for the El Paso area. BCCG was awarded ...
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A Far-Right Faction Took Power in Odessa. Then It Had to Govern.

Last November, around seven hundred people packed into the Ector Theatre, a renovated movie palace in downtown Odessa, to watch the swearing in of Mayor Cal Hendrick and three city council members.