Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 3:54 PM click to enlarge Wikimedia Commons / U.S. White House President Donald Trump reviews U.S. Customs and Border Protection s wall prototypes in California earlier in his term. South Texas political leaders and activists decried President Donald Trump s trip to the region on Tuesday, saying the appearance to tout his border wall was intended to play to his white nationalist base. Trump made an afternoon speech in the Rio Grande Valley to talk up the wall, which he claimed had slowed illegal border crossings and crime. The appearance marked his first speech since armed supporters of the president staged a coup attempt in the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead.
LC and UISD board join resolution to stop border wall construction
Laredo Morning Times
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Border Patrol agent Joe Curran looks at fence construction in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Lukeville, Ariz. in January 2020.Carolyn Van Houten / The Washington Post
The board of trustees for Laredo College and United Independent School District both voted this week to approve a resolution urging the incoming Biden administration to terminate the construction contracts for the border wall in the Laredo Sector. Both entities own land along the border that stands to be affected by the wall.
They now join the Webb County Commissioners Court, Zapata County Commissioners Court, Eagle Pass City Council and Texas Democratic Party in this initiative to stop the wall from coming to this stretch of the border before construction begins.
Webb County approves border wall moratorium resolution
Dec. 15, 2020
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Members of the U.S. military install concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande Nov. 16, 2018 in Laredo. Plans to begin construction of the border wall locally remain up in the air.Danny Zaragoza / Laredo Morning TimesShow MoreShow Less
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Photos show what the U.S.-Mexico border has looked like over the years.Laredo Morning Times Show MoreShow Less
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Migrants, including a pregnant woman, wait for inspection to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, circa 1950s.Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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The U.S. established an official border patrol in 1924 with the goal of securing the U.S.-Mexico border. In the photo below, American guards pat down Mexicans who wish to enter the U.S.Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
Webb Commissioners Court to discuss tax abatements, border wall resolution
Dec. 14, 2020
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Border Patrol agent Justin Castrejon speaks in front of newly replaced border wall sections Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, near Tecate, Calif. Top Trump administration officials will visit South Texas five days before Election Day to announce they have completed 400 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall, attempting to show progress on perhaps the president s best-known campaign promise four years ago. But most of the wall went up in areas that already had smaller barriers.Gregory Bull /Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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