AUSTIN (Border Report) — In Thursday’s Border Report Live, one of our correspondents shares details on his trip to witness a new section of border wall being erected in New Mexico, while the other explains how school funding cuts are affecting students along the border.
El Paso Correspondent Julian Resendiz traveled to Santa Teresa, New Mexico — and then across the border — as excavators are digging into the ground to place 30-foot-tall steel bollard fencing as a supplement to an 18-foot-tall steel mesh fence that bears repairs from when smugglers have cut through. His report showed it’s going up in a place known for smuggling and where migrants have had to be rescued.
Meanwhile this week in California, school districts on the border are bracing for what the Trump administration’s funding cuts will mean for programs that promote classroom instruction and improve technology use in the classroom as well as provide programs for English learners and adult education.
California Correspondent Salvador Rivera reports the state’s attorney general is among 23 others who have filed a lawsuit over the frozen funding.
Watch the latest Border Report Live conversation above and tune in each weekday for the latest episode with news from along the border.