Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge announced today that next week the levee that runs between its visitor's center and its trail system will close for "construction." Construction of Trump's multi-billion-dollar environmentally devastating border walls.

New U.S. Customs and Border Protection maps released this week show a new border wall to be built through several popular wildlife and recreation areas in the Rio Grande Valley, including the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge.

A Corpus cryptomine guzzled up millions of water last year. Now in the middle of a crisis, the city is refusing to release the facility's current water usage records. www.texasobserver.org/corpus-chris...

Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption

“There was a man who has Stage 3 lung cancer, not getting medical treatment. He wants to leave, go back home, spend his final months...with his family. But they just won’t let him go.”

A construction company sued the Trump administration after it awarded the bulk of new Texas border wall contracts to another company. The suit claims out of the 11 prequalified vendors for the wall projects, U.S. Customs and Border Protection awarded about 73% of the contracts’ value to just two.

Just going to leave this here.

Trump's DHS plans to run a border wall through canyons that are home to Native American pictograph panels that are thousands of years old. Laws have been waived, contracts awarded, maps drawn to build this destructive monstrosity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEgp...

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

Soldiers assigned to the border in southeast Arizona are collecting all the makeshift ladders that they find after migrants leave them behind when climbing over the not-so-impenetrable border wall. www.dvidshub.net/image/967620...

Last week we asked you to take action to protect the Labyrinth Canyon area from a BLM proposal to authorize the Keg Knoll backcountry airstrip. Now, the BLM’s Canyon Country District is proposing to designate TEN additional backcountry airstrips. TAKE ACTION NOW suwa.quorum.us/campaign/162...

“Brownsville cannot keep selling us out to these toxic polluters.” Our top story: Residents are resisting this town's plans to make liquefied natural gas a key part of its future. But big donors are determined to silence their voices.

Last Friday, without any notice, a contractor working for DHS cut a roughly 60-foot swath across the middle of the intaglio, doing irreparable damage to the 1,000-year-old artifact. interc.pt/4t5496f

“He says they love the area and their custom-built house. But he says they didn’t know a border wall would cut through a tract of Lower Rio Grande National Wildlife Refuge that used to be a greenspace that they enjoyed.” www.borderreport.com/border-repor...

Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."

The Trump administration fired two immigration judges who dismissed deportation cases against pro-Palestinian international students. The firings of Roopal Patel and Nina Froes are the latest move to reshape the country’s immigration courts.

ICE has reported the 15th death in immigration detention in 2026. Tuan Van Bui, 55, died April 1 at Miami Correctional Center in Indiana. That's one death every 6.0 days since January 1. 🧵

New 30 ft border wall going up behind S TX homes. When it is finished lights will flood their yards and cameras will peer into their windows. The wall is just outside of their property line so CBP will not compensate them for the devaluation of their property or the disruption of their lives.

WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf, then punishing them when they didn't pay up. Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.

Markwayne Mullin has defended fatal ICE shootings, pushed extreme anti-immigrant policies, denied the 2020 election, and shown reckless judgment unfit for leadership. Tell your Senators: Vote NO on confirming him as DHS Secretary!

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

NEW: Renée Good. Alex Pretti. Before: Ruben Martinez. Friday TX DPS released body cam + docs for the 23yo who DHS agents killed while on vacation in South Padre. Videos shows him driving while brake lights on, before gunshots. w/ @aydenrunnels.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/s...

ALERT: I'm seeing headlines like this claiming victory on the Big Bend border wall. THIS IS COMPLETELY FALSE. All DHS did was change the color of a line on a map. DHS engineers have mapped out a course for the wall in Big Bend National Park. They showed their cards. (thread 1/6)

Noem and Lewandowski had to sign off on every DHS contract over $100,000. The Big Beautiful Bill gave DHS $46 billion for border walls. Noem waived contracting laws. Multiple border wall contracts went out for up to $1.5 billion apiece. For example: www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

For 4,000 years communities moved through the land where the Pecos and Devils Rivers feed into the Rio Grande. When CBP updated border wall maps last month they added a stretch across the Pecos River and Seminole Canyon State Park. Art that has survived for thousands of years will be desecrated.

Last week: The "One Big Beautiful Bill" did not include the provision that spared the La Lomita chapel, the Santa Ana refuge, or any other sensitive location, and a map posted by CBP indicates that Trump’s barrier will tear through them.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

"If border walls destroy La Lomita, Santa Ana, Bentsen State Park, and the National Butterfly Center, they will not be magically resurrected when the White House has a less malignant occupant."

Here’s last night’s story about the Department of Homeland Security, how it’s emboldening ICE, and why it is – for some ungodly reason – allowing Kristi Noem to constantly cosplay as a law enforcement agent. We don’t care what they say, she does not need coast guard fatigues!

We’re back! And a lot has happened since we’ve been away. This week’s main story concerns unrest in Minnesota, murders committed by ICE and CBP agents, and the massive entity overseeing it all: the Department of Homeland Security. Plus, some stuff about Business Shrek – sorry, “Tom Homan.”

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

This is a breathtaking article about the complete clown show at DHS being overseen by Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski (gift link)

The FAA urged aircraft operators to ensure they have enough fuel in case they are put in a holding pattern due to a rocket explosion. We found that several planes ran low on fuel after the Jan. 2025 Starship incident. At least one declared a mayday and crossed the no-fly zone to reach an airport.

DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

Everyone, R or D, who voted for this bill - but especially border Dems Cuellar and Gonzalez, whose constituents will be targeted by ICE abuses and border walls that this will pay for - should be voted out.

The choice for replacing Rodney Scott, if pushed out, is seemingly Joseph Mazzara, a lawyer who’s facing possible contempt charges in the CECOT case in front of Boasberg. He may have been the one who wrote the “raid homes without real warrants” memo. Noem named him Deputy Commissioner last month.

Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

There are now at least 100 House members signed on to our effort to impeach Kristi Noem. Where the hell are the rest of them? Let’s ask:

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Under these restrictive policies, migrant deaths in Arizona rose by 48% compared to previous years. Of the known causes of death, heat exposure (heat stroke, dehydration, etc.) was the most common. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This was posted by the head of the Border Patrol on MLK Day 2022. Trump and Miller have unleashed and encouraged the worst abuses by ICE and the Border Patrol, but they are nothing new. They are now just being experienced by the rest of the United States.

A man who praises Hitler, says all migrants are criminals, & that "all Black people are foreign" continues to be an ICE prosecutor. To say this system is rotten to the core is a dramatic understatement. As always great reporting by @stevanzetti.bsky.social for the indefatigable @texasobserver.org