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A 1,400-acre Rio Grande ranch purchase marks Texas’ latest step in border wall expansion, with a new mile-long section underway in the coming weeks.
Usable and structurally sound border wall panels are still lying on the ground in the Rio Grande Valley, for example, one source involved in border wall construction told The Center Square.
In 2021, in collaboration with the United States and Mexican ambassadors, as well as businessmen, a binational park was proposed along the Rio Grande between the border towns of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Supported by the No Border Wall Coalition, the park aims to create a shared recreational space instead of a border wall.
Lone Star State officials are reportedly surveying parts of the Rio Grande near Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, and more bright-orange buoys could go up as soon as Wednesday, according to a report.
In 2023, the Biden administration sought to waive environmental laws to proceed with wall construction in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The move was met with backlash by some immigrant advocates ...
The proposed US–Mexico border wall is slated to pass through the grounds of the National Butterfly Center. [7] [8] Filmmaker Krista Schlyer, part of an all-woman team creating a documentary film about the butterflies and the border wall, Ay Mariposa, [9] estimates that construction would put "70 percent of the preserve habitat behind the border wall."
The 18-foot (5.5 m) high fencing was intended to close a gap between a 21-mile (34 km) section of existing fencing along the Rio Grande and mountainous terrain. Kris Kobach of We Build the Wall claimed the area was allowing up to 100 illegal immigrants and $100,000 in illegal drugs to enter the US each night. [51]
In the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, a patchwork of federal wall panels exist, some with gaps the size of semi-trucks. More construction under Biden has been planned.