If you re able to go above and beyond to help us during this important time, please consider making an additional financial contribution. Click here to contribute.
Lined up in neat rows, cement mixers, backhoes, bulldozers and dump trucks sat idle Wednesday at a construction staging area carved out of a mountainside, about eight miles west of Nogales and five miles south of Peña Blanca Lake.
Dozens of panels of steel bollards, meant to be cemented upright into the earth as part of an uninterrupted border barrier across the western half of Santa Cruz County, lay stacked on the ground.