Border wall Coverage

Biden and Trump both head to border to talk migrant crisis

On Thursday the border and the migrant crisis take center stage in Texas as the top contenders for the White House head to the southern border. President Joe Biden and Donald Trump will do the same are taking a closer look at the situation while trying to convince voters they have answers for the problems there.

Editorial: Tillis's flip on bipartisan border security deal is a flop

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024 -- Sen. Thom Tillis Tillis is subservient to Donald Trump's selfish desires for a political confrontation. He is fearful of retribution from Trump and his devotees in the GOP on the national and state level.

Fact check: Trump ad claims Haley opposed border wall, travel ban

Former President Donald Trump is airing an ad in New Hampshire that casts him as a strong defender of U.S. borders while portraying former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley as weak.

Maria Briceño and Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact reporters

Fact check: Did Biden flip-flop on stopping border wall construction?

As a 2020 presidential candidate, Joe Biden vowed that no more wall would be built along the U.S. southern border. Now, after failing to persuade Congress to reappropriate 2019 funds designated for wall construction, his administration said it will build additional border barriers before Sept. 30, 2024.

Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact reporter

Fact-checking Donald Trump's CNN town hall claims on Jan. 6, abortion, Mar-a-Lago documents

In a raucous town hall where an audience of invited Republicans often cheered him on, former President Donald Trump insisted he didn't know the woman who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict against him, suggested the U.S. might as well default on its debt and dodged questions about whether he would sign a federal abortion ban.

PolitiFact reporters Matthew Crowley, Louis Jacobson and Amy Sherman

Fact-checking Donald Trump's CPAC claims about elections, immigration, economy

PolitiFact fact-checked several statements former President Donald Trump made during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 4.

PolitiFact reporters Matthew Crowley, Maria Ramirez Uribe, and Amy Sherman

Fact check: Did Biden and Democrats 'dismantle' border security?

Nevada's Republican candidate for Senate, Adam Laxalt, launched a campaign ad saying President Biden and Democrats "have dismantled border security." PolitiFact checks his claim.

Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact reporter

Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to NY state charges of money laundering, conspiracy and fraud related to border wall effort

Former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty Thursday in a New York court to state charges of money laundering, conspiracy and fraud related to an alleged online scheme to raise money for the construction of a wall along the southern US border, according to his attorney.

By Kara Scannell, Hannah Rabinowitz and Shawna Mizelle, CNN

Fact check: Is the U.S. spending millions to guard unused border wall materials?

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has been especially active on border policies, writing in a May 28 newsletter: "Well here's something you may not know your tax dollars are being spent on: unused border wall materials." She cited a Republican-authored report estimated that $3 million per day was being spent.

Nina Baker, PolitiFact reporter

More than 1 million migrants arrested at the US-Mexico border since October

More than 1 million migrants have been arrested after illegally crossing the US-Mexico border since last October, according to two US Department of Homeland Security officials, surpassing the 2019 border crisis tally with three months still left in the fiscal year.

By Priscilla Alvarez and Geneva Sands, CNN

The border crisis is becoming more and more volatile

Many are calling on President Biden to do more then it comes to dealing with the border crisis.

Trump brushes off impeachment threat

During a visit to the wall on th eU.S.-Mexico border that became a symbol of his administration, President Donald Trump said he's not worried about being forced out of office before his term ends next week.

Fact check: 15 things Trump says Biden would ban, abolish or destroy

President Trump says at rallies and on Twitter that Joe Biden wants to ban or destroy various things important to Americans, such as protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions, police funding and suburbs. Here's

Miriam Valverde, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Trump says Biden 'talking about taking the wall down'

As he accepted the Republican nomination for reelection, President Donald Trump claimed that Joe Biden's immigration plan would disadvantage Americans. Speaking from the South Lawn of the White House, Trump also claimed his Democratic opponent would undo one of Trump's proudest undertakings: the construction of border barriers.

Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporter

Former Trump advisor arrested for defrauding people using online political fundraiser

Steve Bannon, former advisor to Trump, was arrested for defrauding people with his 'We Build the Wall' online campaign. Hundreds of thousands of dollars did not go to rebuilding the wall, according to prosecutors. He and four others were charged with fraud.

Winds topple US border wall being built; it falls in Mexico

A portion of border wall being built in California toppled in strong winds, falling on a busy street on the Mexican side, authorities said Thursday. No one was injured.

100 miles of border wall built, US officials say

Acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and other officials were in Yuma, Arizona on Friday to tout the 100th mile of border fencing construction completed along the border with Mexico.

DRAUGHON DRAWS: 'Tis the season, Sen. Tillis

Monday, Dec. 16, 2019 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.

Pelosi right in saying Trump has failed to deliver on border wall

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently claimed President Donald Trump isn't serious about building his promised Southern border wall and that his comments on the topic "are really an applause line at a rally." Politifact finds she is mostly right.

Fact check: Pelosi mostly right about Trump not building new border wall

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently claimed President Donald Trump isn't serious about building his promised Southern border wall and that his comments on the topic "are really an applause line at a rally."

Chris Nichols, Politifact reporter

Trump mistakenly lists Colorado as site of border wall

During a speech on American energy in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, President Donald Trump ticked through his usual issues before making an unusual remark about his long-promised border wall.

Trump says US is building a wall in Colorado -- a state that doesn't border Mexico

During a speech on American energy in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, President Donald Trump ticked through his usual issues before making an unusual remark about his long-promised border wall.

By Kevin Liptak and Caroline Kelly, CNN

Aging military school loses funding to border wall

WASHINGTON -- For almost two decades, families at Fort Campbell, the sprawling Army base along the Kentucky-Tennessee border, have borne the brunt of the country's war efforts as a steady clip of troops with the 101st Airborne Division and from Special Operations units deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Helene Cooper, New York Times

When entering the US was as easy as crossing a street

The border between the U.S. and Mexico has long been marked by barriers, but they weren't always about deterring immigration. Here's how the modern border came to be, starting with the year 1848.

Hispanic community: Closing border counter intuitive in quest to quell illegal immigration

President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close America's southern border or large sections of it next week, a potentially drastic step affecting the economies of both the U.S. and Mexico, if Mexico does not halt illegal immigration "immediately."

Sarah Krueger, WRAL reporter