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Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, reporting compiled in these sources records constructed during his first term, against a U.S.–Mexico border of , meaning a minority portion of the total boundary was...
The current status of the Trump administration’s border wall project is active construction of limited new barrier segments in southern California and Arizona, driven by recent federal funding and exp...
The Obama administration supported and oversaw extensive physical barriers along the U.S.–Mexico border under statutory authorities and programs, resulting in roughly built during and ascribed to the ...
The current U.S. southwest border program combines work completed under prior administrations with a new expansion called the and as of mid‑June 2025 roughly were reported complete, while recent contr...
Official U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data say roughly 702 miles of primary barrier and 76 miles of secondary barrier existed prior to January 20, 2025, leaving about 535 miles of the Sout...
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 Trump administration prioritized finishing and filling “gaps” in already identified high-traffic sectors of the southern border—most notably the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas and parts of south...
Construction and mitigation of the U.S.–Mexico border wall through 2025 has disproportionately affected specific ecological hotspots and frontline communities: biodiversity-rich corridors in southern ...
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...
Coverage shows the U.S.–Mexico border barrier is neither continuous nor static: roughly 702 miles of “primary” barrier existed prior to Jan. 20, 2025, with many gaps, new state- and federal-funded pro...
The Biden administration has not fully abandoned construction of barriers begun under President Trump but has significantly narrowed, redirected, and legally contested the scope of the project. While ...
The Trump administration’s stated goal during his presidency was to construct up to of border barriers along the U.S.–Mexico boundary, while multiple government and journalistic tallies put the in man...
President Biden’s border security strategy emphasizes reversing many Trump-era measures, prioritizing legal pathways and administrative reforms over new large-scale physical barriers, while the Trump ...
Border wall construction is associated with a shift in migrant routes into more remote desert areas, and multiple datasets and expert analyses indicate this shift correlates with increased migrant dea...