‘It’s Infuriating’: Critics Say Border Wall Still Going Up When They Can’t Protest

For five generations Nayda Alvarez’s family has owned property along the Rio Grande near Rio Grande City, Texas. Alvarez says that if the border wall were built as laid out in preliminary maps, her house would end up about a yard away from it. This could mean that her house would have to be demolished in order to leave the 150-foot enforcement zone clear for surveillance.  Veronica G. Cardenas/Texas Public Radio

COVID-19 knows no borders, but the Trump administration is still building a border wall during the pandemic, Reynaldo Leaños Jr. reports in NPR. “Since the pandemic began in the U.S., federal officials have moved to speed up construction of 200 miles of border wall by waiving federal regulations. And they are still filing lawsuits in south Texas to seize private land for the wall” — all at a time when construction and legal filings are more difficult for activists to track.

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