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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

A stretch of the border wall near Columbus, New Mexico along State Road 9. (Photo by Patrick Lohmann / Source NM) The U.S. government this week set aside environmental protection laws in order to ...

Migration pathways for animals will be further fragmented by the new additions to the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. This story was originally published by Sierra and is republished here by ...

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 August 2025, the Trump administration announced it would paint the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border black in the hopes the wall would become hotter and thus deter people from climbing it. A mural ...