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President Biden’s decision this week to move forward with border wall construction that Democrats have long denounced shocked allies and immigration advocates. The stunning reversal came just days after administration officials participated in an immigration roundtable at the Capitol featuring Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) members and immigration advocates. The administration’s participation in the roundtable drew praise…

President Biden began construction on the border wall started by former President Trump, despite Biden’s campaign promise that he would stop building it. Read more.

The progressive Democrat tore down the president's excuses for waiving dozens of federal laws to add about 20 miles of wall in South Texas.

The move comes after the President vowed to not build "another foot” of Donald Trump's border wall in 2020.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday rejected U.S. plans to build new sections of wall at the U.S.-Mexico border ahead of high-level meetings with U.S. officials expected to focus on immigration and security. "This authorization for the construction of the wall is a step backwards," Lopez Obrador told a press conference ahead of talks in Mexico City with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior U.S. officials. Lopez Obrador sai...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) denounced President Biden’s decision to continue border wall construction in his state Thursday, saying the move is not in line with his administration’s policies. “This is a crisis. It’s out of control, but I don’t believe for a minute that Joe Biden wants to fix it,” Cruz said in a Fox…

Seven Republican presidential candidates participated in a debate Wednesday night in California, while the front-runner in the party primary, former President Donald Trump, skipped the debate and instead gave a speech in Michigan amid a strike by autoworkers.

Recent permits show a new Culver's is going up at Glen Kernan Park, Sweet Peaches Coffee is coming to Baymeadow, and a new Popeye's for Dunn Avenue.

These are the largest commercial building permits by job cost issued Sept. 6, 2023, by the city of Jacksonville.

A new report details the "devastating" consequences of Trump’s promise to construct a “big, beautiful wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border.