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City and the county seat of Val Verde County, Texas, United States
Construction of the is active but partial: federal agencies report a mix of completed legacy barriers, new “” contracts and ongoing construction in multiple sectors, while states and contractors also ...
in run on parallel tracks: the federal "Smart Wall" program is awarding multi‑billion‑dollar construction and technology contracts across Texas, while the state’s built dozens of miles with state appr...
By December 31, 2025, publicly available documents and press releases show a clear but incomplete picture: at least about 116 miles of had been explicitly contracted (including recent awards and previ...
and were the busiest sectors for detected illegal crossings in late 2023 and into 2024, with Tucson repeatedly reported as the single busiest corridor and Del Rio often second in apprehension counts ....
Operation Streamline, launched in late 2005, abruptly shifted large numbers of unauthorized border-crossing cases from civil immigration processing into federal criminal courts and coincided with a sh...
The only sector-level completed mileage that can be confirmed in the provided reporting as of December 31, 2025, is one mile in the Tucson Sector, reported by local news citing CBP and visible on CBP’...
Roughly one-third of the U.S.–Mexico border remains without continuous pedestrian-style barrier, and federal agencies are prioritizing a mix of new bollard fencing, secondary barriers and detection “S...
The southern wall — a patchwork program of steel bollard barriers, waterborne defenses, detection technology and patrol infrastructure along the U.S.–Mexico border — is once again scaling up with bill...
The analyses provided show two consistent themes: the Trump administration prioritized , focusing work across California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, while later administrations and DHS actions em...
Available public reporting establishes that (also styled BCCG Joint Venture) is a –based contractor that has received large and “” awards and an IDIQ tasking since 2023, but none of the provided sourc...
Public contract records and trade reporting identify "" as a registered joint-venture contractor based in that has been awarded multiple large and construction task orders since 2023 . The specific co...
, federal agencies constructed roughly 450 miles of border barrier and, while they did produce environmental assessments and some mitigation measures for specific project sites, they mostly relied on ...
By the end of 2025, publicly available federal and state documents in the provided reporting do not supply a single, consolidated tally of “miles completed” of new border barriers broken down by Borde...
Local economies along the southern border have experienced a mix of immediate fiscal strains, labor-market shifts, and federal investments tied to migration flows during the Biden administration; part...
The largest increases in undocumented crossings under President Biden were concentrated along the Southwest border, with several Texas Border Patrol sectors—most notably the Del Rio area—highlighted b...
Yes — the incident of Border Patrol agents on horseback confronting Haitian migrants in Del Rio became a major media story: images and videos circulated widely, prompted rapid political condemnation a...