#usmexicoborder — Public Fediverse posts

Trump’s border wall construction threatens rock art as old as the pyramids: ‘The ancestors are still here’
By Roque Planas in Comstock, Texas

The president’s border wall plan could damage or destroy ‘the oldest-known books in North America’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/24/indigenous-rock-art-border-wall

#USMexicoborder #Indigenouspeoples #Nationalparks #Trumpadministration #DonaldTrump #Art #USimmigration #Texas #USpolitics #USnews #Mexico #Americas #TheGuardian #RoquePlanasinComstock #Texas

Trump’s border wall construction threatens rock art as old as the pyramids: ‘The ancestors are still here’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/24/indigenous-rock-art-border-wall #UsmexicoBorder #IndigenousPeoples #NationalParks #TrumpAdministration #DonaldTrump #Art #UsImmigration #Texas #UsPolitics #UsNews #Mexico #Americas

Rise in migrant deaths as 19 bodies found along Arizona border last month https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/migrant-deaths-arizona #UsmexicoBorder #Arizona #UsImmigration #UsNews #WorldNews

Rise in migrant deaths as 19 bodies found along Arizona border last month
By Tyler Hicks

Pima county figures show highest number of monthly migrant deaths in two years as critics condemn US policy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/migrant-deaths-arizona

#USMexicoborder #Arizona #USimmigration #USnews #Worldnews #TheGuardian #TylerHicks

The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering. It devastated mom-and-pop businesses instead
By Lourdes Medrano in El Paso, Texas, with photographs by Christ Chavez

Small businesses pay hidden toll after money-transfer rule change to curb illicit activities near the US-Mexico border

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/us-mexico-border-area-money-transfer-rule-change-small-businesses

#Trumpadministration #Remittances #USMexicoborder #USimmigration #Surveillance #UScrime #NewMexico #ElPaso #Texas #Phoenix #Arizona #California #LawUS #USdomesticpolicy #WestCoast #USnews #Mexico #Americas #Worldnews #TheGuardian #LourdesMedranoinElPaso #Texas #withphotographsbyChristChavez

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/04/protesters-occupy-tree-us-mexico-border
“‘The tree itself has become a symbol,’ Meza said, both of the ecological importance of the area and the beauty that remains, but also ‘how much violence and destruction has happened on the border’.”
#USMexicoborder #arizona #theguardian #news #yellowbilledcuckoo #cottonwood

Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction: ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/04/protesters-occupy-tree-us-mexico-border #UsmexicoBorder #ProtestUs #TreesAndForests #Arizona #UsImmigration #Conservation #Environment #UsNews

Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction: ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’
By Douglas Main

Demonstrators stage ‘tree sit’ in Arizona town to stop felling of ancient cottonwood grove to make way for border wall

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/04/protesters-occupy-tree-us-mexico-border

#USMexicoborder #ProtestUS #Treesandforests #Arizona #USimmigration #Conservation #Environment #USnews #TheGuardian #DouglasMain

Crews building Trump border wall in drought-hit New Mexico ordered to stop drilling wells
By Coral Murphy Marcos and agencies

Residents and farmers say contractors have tapped border aquifers that threaten water supply for those nearby

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/trump-border-wall-new-mexico-wells

#USMexicoborder #USnews #USpolitics #Worldnews #USimmigration #Water #Environment #TheGuardian #CoralMurphyMarcos #agencies

Crews building Trump border wall in drought-hit New Mexico ordered to stop drilling wells https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/trump-border-wall-new-mexico-wells #UsmexicoBorder #UsNews #UsPolitics #WorldNews #UsImmigration #Water #Environment

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, first Latino winner of PEN/Faulkner award, dies aged 71
By Abené Clayton

Celebrated writer, poet and novelist for young adults drew upon his sexuality and life on US southern border

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/03/benjamin-alire-saenz-writer-death

#Books #USnews #Worldnews #Culture #USMexicoborder #Texas #TheGuardian #AbenClayton

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, first Latino winner of PEN/Faulkner award, dies aged 71 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/03/benjamin-alire-saenz-writer-death #Books #UsNews #WorldNews #Culture #UsmexicoBorder #Texas

11 people indicted over deaths of six people in cargo container in Texas https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/texas-migrant-deaths-indictment #Texas #UsCrime #UsmexicoBorder #UsImmigration #UsNews

11 people indicted over deaths of six people in cargo container in Texas
By Guardian staff and agency

Six migrants from Honduras and Mexico – including 14-year-old boy – were found dead in May near US-Mexico border

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/texas-migrant-deaths-indictment

#Texas #UScrime #USMexicoborder #USimmigration #USnews #TheGuardian #Guardianstaff #agency

‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wall
By Douglas Main in Tucson, Arizona

Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/arizona-border-wall-endangered-species

#Arizona #Endangeredspecies #Trumpadministration #Nationalparks #USimmigration #USMexicoborder #Environment #DonaldTrump #Endangeredhabitats #Conservation #USnews #USpolitics #Wildlife #USdomesticpolicy #Indigenouspeoples #TheGuardian #DouglasMaininTucson #Arizona

‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wall https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/arizona-border-wall-endangered-species #Arizona #EndangeredSpecies #TrumpAdministration #NationalParks #UsImmigration #UsmexicoBorder #Environment #DonaldTrump #EndangeredHabitats #Conservation #UsNews #UsPolitics #Wildlife #UsDomesticPolicy #IndigenousPeoples

‘I’ve never worked with so many conservatives’: the Texans fighting the Big Bend border wall
By Diana Spechler

Residents across party lines say Trump’s proposed wall threatens their homes, livelihoods and wilderness along the Rio Grande

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/15/big-bend-wall-texas-bipartisan

#Texas #USnews #USimmigration #USMexicoborder #Nationalparks #Environment #TheGuardian #DianaSpechler

‘I’ve never worked with so many conservatives’: the Texans fighting the Big Bend border wall https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/15/big-bend-wall-texas-bipartisan #Texas #UsNews #UsImmigration #UsmexicoBorder #NationalParks #Environment

Supreme court lets Trump turn back asylum seekers at US-Mexico border https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/supreme-court-ruling-asylum-seekers-us-mexico-border #UsSupremeCourt #UsmexicoBorder #UsImmigration #UsNews #UsPolitics #TrumpAdministration

‘It’s massive destruction’: outcry in Texas over waivers to allow border wall in Big Bend national park https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/texas-border-wall-big-bend-national-park #Texas #NationalParks #TrumpAdministration #UsmexicoBorder #UsImmigration #UsNews #DonaldTrump #UsPolitics #UsDomesticPolicy #Environment

‘Repression and resistance’: a historian uncovers the history of migrant protests in US detention https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/07/us-migration-policy-detention-hunger-strikes #UsImmigration #IceUsImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #NewJersey #California #UsmexicoBorder #UsPrisons #WestCoast #UsNews

Four suspects charged after one-ton cocaine bust reveals US-Mexico tunnel https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/san-diego-drug-tunnel #California #Drugs #UsCrime #UsmexicoBorder #UsNews #WestCoast

‘A horrible way to die’: after deaths in Laredo, experts prepare for lethal summer heat at US-Mexico border https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/us-mexico-border-extreme-heat #UsmexicoBorder #ExtremeHeat #UsImmigration #TrumpAdministration #Texas #Arizona #UsNews #UsPolitics

Deaths of at least six people believed to be due to heat inside shipping container in Texas https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/12/deaths-six-people-shipping-container-texas-mexico #UsmexicoBorder #UsImmigration #Texas #UsNews

Court blocks Trump’s executive order suspending asylum access https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/trump-asylum-executive-order-blocked #UsImmigration #DonaldTrump #UsmexicoBorder #UsJusticeSystem #LawUs #UsNews #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics

Trump’s latest border barrier plans to slice through Big Bend national park: ‘Our lives are being upended’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/trump-border-wall-big-bend-texas #UsmexicoBorder #Texas #UsNews #TrumpAdministration #UsImmigration

Immigrant girl, 3, suffered alleged sexual abuse in federal custody, family says https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/immigrant-girl-sexual-abuse-federal-custody #UsImmigration #UsNews #UsmexicoBorder

US embassy in Mexico prompts outrage with AI video promoting ‘self-deportation’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/28/us-embassy-mexico-outrage-ai-video-self-deportation #UsmexicoBorder #UsImmigration #Mexico #UsNews #AiArtificialIntelligence #WorldNews #Americas

US supreme court appears sympathetic to Trump administration in asylum case https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/24/supreme-court-trump-asylum-seekers-case #UsSupremeCourt #UsImmigration #UsmexicoBorder #UsNews #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics #LawUs