BorderWall

Butterfly sanctuary's closure due to right-wing threats is just another sign of MAGA madness

The National Butterfly Center near Mission, Texas, is closing indefinitely due to rampant right-wing weirdness of the sort that inspired a gunman to shoot up the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in 2016. This …

Sun Feb 6, 2022

Biden admin returns land to Texas family after it was seized by previous admin for its stupid wall

The Cavazos family got an early present at the beginning of December, when land seized by the previous administration for its stupid and racist border wall was returned to them by the Biden …

Sun Dec 26, 2021

Texas National Guard sent to border for Abbott's stunt as state slashes their tuition assistance

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is ordering Texas National Guard troops to participate in his “Operation Lone Star” border scheme as the Texas legislature is slashing their earned benefits, Army Times …

Wed Oct 27, 2021

Nearly all of Greg Abbott's border wall crowdfunding came from one billionaire donor

Republican Greg Abbott claimed earlier this year that he would finish the previous president’s useless and racist border wall. In addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars he would seek in …

Fri Oct 8, 2021

We knew Greg Abbott's border scheme was reprehensible, but we’ve just barely scratched the surface

We knew that Greg Abbott’s “legally dubious” Operation Lone Star scheme colluding with border officials to round up and detain asylum-seekers and migrants for weeks and months without any charges was …

Wed Oct 6, 2021

Asylum-seekers ordered released from Abbott's Operation Lone Star scheme instead turned over to CBP

Detained asylum-seekers and migrants and their advocates won a huge court victory against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last week when a federal judge on Tuesday ordered the release of hundreds of men who …

Mon Oct 4, 2021

Hundreds jailed under Abbott's 'unconstitutional' border scheme have received little to no legal aid

Ivan Nava and David Muñoz, two of the people who have been arrested under Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “legally dubious” scheme sweeping up and prosecuting migrants who have recently come into the state, …

Tue Sep 28, 2021

Judge rules previous admin failed to properly look at environmental impact of wall construction

A federal judge on Monday ruled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the previous administration violated law by failing to properly examine environmental impacts of construction of …

Wed Aug 25, 2021

Viral photo shows portion of previous president's wall 'being ripped apart by monsoon floods'

The previous president once described his stupid and racist border fencing as “virtually impenetrable.” No one told that to Mother Nature.  A viral photo shared by Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center …

Tue Aug 24, 2021

Texas begins arresting migrants under 'emergency' declaration rejected by Rio Grande Valley counties

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has begun his plan to arrest migrants who have recently crossed the U.S./Mexico border into the state, jailing three individuals at the Briscoe Unit in Dilley on …

Thu Jul 22, 2021

As Texas governor claims he'll crowdfund for wall, he's also resuming vile 'invasion' rhetoric

I wish this, this, or this in particular had been the last of what I’d written about Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s politically motivated stunts, but when you have an approaching summer, a …

Mon Jun 21, 2021

$2 billion swindled by the previous admin for border wall construction returned to Pentagon

The Biden administration has announced that it will return more than $2 billion in funds swindled by the previous administration for its stupid border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for. In a …

Mon Jun 14, 2021

Abbott's plan to finish wall, detain migrants panned as 'ridiculous piece of political theater'

Fresh off threatening to further displace vulnerable children who fled from Central America to the U.S. in search of asylum, full-time troll and part-time Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is now claiming he’ll …

Fri Jun 11, 2021

President Biden's first budget request fails to slash funding for ICE and CBP

While President Joe Biden’s initial budget request to Congress this past April included an ask for hundreds of millions of dollars to address naturalization and asylum backlogs at U.S. Citizenship and …

Wed Jun 9, 2021