New "Smart Wall" contracts will add primary and secondary border barriers plus waterborne obstacles, while CBP layers in hundreds of miles of detection technology where walls can’t go.

State-built border wall under construction near the banks of the Rio Grande in Zapata Co. on Sept. 23, 2024. Credit: Ben Lowy for The Texas Tribune Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas ...

Dozens of miles of new border wall, as well as waterborne barrier and advanced technology will soon go up on the border in ...

MISSION, Texas (Border Report) — The sounds of construction cut through this rural section of the border on Wednesday as crews put segments of new, taller border bollards on a section of wall that was ...

Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a ...

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Recommended Videos Four years after Gov ...

"With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them ...