Tag: Mexico border wall
US to hit Mexico with tariffs over ‘illegal migrants’
WASHINGTON D.C.: Washington will impose a five percent tariff on all goods from Mexico -- increasing to as much as 25 percent -- until...
Trump cuts foreign aid, threatens to close Mexico border
WASHINGTON: Threatening drastic action against Mexico, President Donald Trump declared he is likely to shut down America’s southern border next week unless Mexican authorities...
Acting Pentagon chief undecided on Mexico wall’s ‘military necessity’
Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said that he had not yet determined whether a border wall with Mexico was a military necessity or...
Trump offers concessions on immigrants in return for wall funds
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Saturday offered to temporarily shield a million immigrants from deportation if Congress authorizes funding for his Mexican border...
Butterflies, the unlikely victims of Trump’s border wall
WASHINGTON: In Mission, Texas, the construction of part of a long-promised wall on the border with Mexico to stem the tide of undocumented migrants...
No breakthrough in US shutdown talks, Pelosi plans new legislation
WASHINGTON: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats would pass new legislation to try to reopen parts of the government next week after talks...
Top US, Mexico diplomats meet amid migrant crisis
WASHINGTON: Mexico’s new Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday for what he called a "friendly" meeting...
US Army unfurls miles of fencing along border with Mexico
MEXICO: They started work in the cool of the morning and moved quickly, uncoiling reel after reel of vicious-looking fencing and tying it with...
Trump has talked to Mattis about US-Mexico wall funding: Pentagon
WASHINGTON: Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has spoken with US President Donald Trump about the potential use of military funds for a border wall with...
‘Bedlam’ without Mexico border wall, says Trump
CALIFORNIA: Donald Trump - making his first trip to California as president - warned Tuesday there would be "bedlam" without the controversial wall he...
