President Donald Trump signed the so-called "Big, Beautiful Bill" into law on the Fourth of July, bringing to a close a weekslong back and forth in Washington about the fate of the massive spending package.
The bill includes a historic sum of some $170 billion for immigration enforcement and border security.
That means additional money for construction along the border in Arizona and other states — the package puts more than $46 billion toward more wall projects. Another $15 billion will go toward Customs and Border Protection facilities and other initiatives.
The new money will add to existing funding already being used for border construction. Several weeks ago, the Trump administration announced plans to build a more than 20 mile stretch of wall across a biodiversity hot spot in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands called the San Rafael Valley.
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Mexico has largely been able to contain the deadly parasite in the southern part of the country. -
The U.S. Department of Transportation has flagged commercial driver’s license training providers for not meeting the Trump administration’s readiness standards. -
Researchers at University of Arizona have confirmed a new jaguar in southern Arizona. This is the fifth big cat over the last 15 years to be spotted in the area. -
No More Deaths’ aid camp is stationed in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, a few miles from the border in southern Arizona. The group said that site was raided by Border Patrol agents the Sunday before Thanksgiving. -
The State Department accuses the company, which they did not name, of knowingly facilitating illegal immigration.
