President Trump’s desire to build a wall on the border with Mexico was front and center this week, but there’s another huge project hundreds of miles to the north that his administration is pushing, against California leaders’ will: adding nearly two stories in height to the Shasta Dam. State law prohibits the 602-foot structure from getting […]

At least 1,300 miles long, 40 feet high, and containing 19 million tons of concrete. Donald Trump’s much heralded wall along the Mexican border would be a massive undertaking. Just how massive the cost would be is harder to determine. Trump signed an order Wednesday to start the planning process to build the wall, declaring, […]

Nobody knows much about the Mexican border wall — but 300 companies have already said they’d like to help build it. Businesses will be asked to submit their proposals to design and build prototype wall structures near the United States border with Mexico starting next week, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and […]

The Superbowl has came and gone and it appears that a good number of the $5 Million dollar Superbowl ads had a Political message. One of the most noticeable ads was the construction company 84 Lumber’s pro immigration ad. The ad shows a mother and her daughter struggling as they travel to the border. The […]

Mexico won’t willingly write the check for Donald Trump’s wall. So the president is hunting for a way to make Mexico pay. That search isn’t going well. Last week, press secretary Sean Spicer floated one idea: the destination-based cash flow tax. The DBCFT taxes imports and exempts exports. We import about $50 billion more from […]

Sen. John McCain said Friday that Mexico paying for President Donald Trump’s oft-promised border wall is “not a viable option.” When CNN’s Manu Raju asked the Arizona Republican whether it is a “viable option” for Mexico to pay for a border wall, McCain responded simply, “No.” Asked why he said that, McCain offered, “Because it’s […]

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump on Wednesday started to reshape US immigration enforcement policies via executive action, taking his first steps toward fulfilling some of the most contentious pledges that defined his campaign — building a border wall and speeding the deportation of undocumented immigrants.   Trump signed two executive orders directing the construction of […]