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Kim Perales

"The House GOP unveiled its budget recon bill -contains🚨$46.5B for building new border wall -nearly 3x as much as Trump spent on wall during his 1st term. That'd be enough💰to fund the IMM courts for 55 years."
-A R-Melnick
(Trump's laid off or rec resignations from >24 IMM judges.)

"Recon bill: doesn't incl #ICE: J Jordan's HJC gets to do that on Wed.

- $46.5B for #borderwall
- $5B for CBP facilities
- $4.1B for 3,000 new BP agents, 5,000 CBP officers"
-A Isacson

DHS announcement on the border wall:
#Immigration#Fascism#USPol
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Nonilex

#HouseRepublicans unveiled their #HomelandSecurity budget reconciliation bill late Sunday night.

It contains $46.5 BILLION for building the #BorderWall — nearly 3x as much as #Trump spent on the wall in his first term.

That would be enough money to fund the #immigration #courts for 55 yrs straight.

$5B for #CBP facilities
$4.1B for 3k new BP agents & 5k CBP officers

It does not include a budget for #ICE. That gets decided by #JimJordan’s #Judiciary Cmte on Wed.

#law
homeland.house.gov/wp-content/

TITLE VI-COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY 1. BORDER BARRIER SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION, INVASIVE SPECIES, AND BORDER SECURITY FACILITIES IMPROVEMENTS. In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2029, the following: (1) $46,500,000,000 for necessary expenses relating to the following: (A) Construction, installation, or improvement of primary, waterborne, and secondary barriers. (B) Access roads. (C) Barrier system attributes, including cameras, lights, sensors, roads, and other detection technology.
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Kim Perales

Trump has urged Congress to authorize an🚨additional $175B for border sec. In the coming months, border towns in TX & AZ will receive more grants to fund & equip police patrols. New wall CONST projects will fill border communities with workers who eat at restaurants, shop in stores & NG deployments will add to local economies.

But the biggest needs in the communities on the TX-MX border are drinking water, INFRA, HC, hospitals...

#BorderWall #Corruption #Resist #USPol propublica.org/article/trump-b

ProPublicaTrump Is Spending Billions on Border Security. Some Residents Living There Lack Basic Resources.
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My camera shoots fascists

After getting back from paragliding in Colombia a week ago, I couldn't wait to get back to the border. After spending the night at the asylum seeker aid camp, I went around the mountains to the Nogales side and got a whole bunch more #MuroLoco / Wall Crazy shots.

I'll be adding a bunch more soon.

The front fence is from the last Trump administration. The one behind is (I'm pretty sure) left over from the Obama administration. Note how much U.S. territory has been ceded to Mexico or become no-one's land between the fences.

The rusty steel U.S.-Mexico border fence as an abstract photograph. In the front, the new fence is a series of bright, rusty square steel tubes with a 4' tall flat rusty steel plate welded across the tops, supposedly to prevent people from climbing over. Behind the new fence, up on a hill above it, is the Obama-era fence, shorter and without the no-climb plate on top. Like the new fence, it descends a slight slope in stair-step fashion.
#BorderWall#Immigration
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My camera shoots fascists

While I've posted most of these over the last few weeks, I've started a gallery on my site for the Muro Loco / Wall Crazy series.
mikaljakubal.com/galleries/

Still a work in progress. I need to add more shots, caption all of them, write an intro. I'd like to find a place to exhibit them.

Edit to add that I'm still adjusting the gallery in mobile view. The captions override the images too much. Looks better on a big screen. I'm working on it.

An abstract "arty" shot of the top of the U.S.-Mexico border fence. It appears as a series of pointy, rusty metal plates, like some sort of metallic dragon's-back plates atop vertical corrugations formed by telephoto compression of the 30' tall posts that make up the fence. The border fence road can be seen "above" the fence, though it's really an artifact of the telephoto lens and the angle of view. The road surface appears as black and white corduroy stripes: shadows from the low sun shining through the fence.
#Border#immigration#BorderWall
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My camera shoots fascists

Muro Loco/Wall Crazy # 21

The previous "wall" near Tres Bellotas Ranch east of Sasabe, AZ. Based on a number of discussions, I believe that this was constructed under the Obama administration. It was torn down and replaced with the current "mine-is-bigger" Trump administration fence. This is just a small section of a huge pile.

An open field with a dry hill covered in scrubby brush behind it. In the field is a jumbled pile of sections of old border fence. Each section is made of concrete-filled steel tubes about 20' long, torn out in big chunks and thrown hodgepodge in a heap.
#MuroLoco#border#borderwall
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Muro Loco/Wall Crazy

I've decided that "Wall Crazy", a direct translation, is better than "Crazy Wall", because it suggests the mental state of current border and immigration policy.

I just skimmed through the last trip's images and I've got some really good ones. They haven't closed the road yet and so far it seems the military are going to the populous areas. That is, they're going to where the media can easily get to and report, since this is all theater anyway.

Anyway, here's something slightly different. Shadows cast through the flood gates where the fence crosses California Gulch. I climbed up on the lock boxes on the gates themselves to get this shot.

A dark-shadowed concrete road surface. running diagonally from lower right to upper center is a line of narrow white stripes — the sun shining through the bars of the U.S.-Mexico border fence. The lines are arranged in groups with dark areas between every six bright lines, somewhat suggesting a row of piano keys.
#MuroLoco#BorderWall#Border
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One quick story. Just after dark last night, I stoked the fire at the aid camp near the end of the border wall, made dinner and sat around reading. About 8:30 p.m., I saw vehicle lights coming down the steep dirt road over in Mexico. About 10 minutes later, a young Guatemalan couple with a six month old baby showed up.

As usual, I welcomed them over, explained this was a camp for immigrants and asylum seekers and was the best place to wait for Border Patrol. They had just missed the 8 PM pick up, so would have to wait until 2 AM in the morning for the next one. I showed them where the water, food and porta potties were.

They have an interesting story and are probably extremely good candidates for asylum, but I'll tell that later.

#Border#AsylumSeekers#Immigrants
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Here's a pretty good article about some of the humanitarian desert aid work that groups I work with do along the border. We are all continuing on as normal, but also somewhat holding our breath waiting to see what happens.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · ‘The discourse is chilling’: aid groups on US-Mexico border prepare for TrumpPar Nina Lakhani
#Border#BorderWall#Immigration
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Here's another #MuroLoco / Crazy Wall shot. It's really hard to describe how wild this thing is. I've said before that I see it as a piece of public art in the service of authoritarianism. Being out here a lot, I can't help but see its performative character, its ideological purpose, its practical purpose (funneling big money into various private hands), *and* its raw aesthetic power.

I'm really hoping they don't close the access road immediately. The more I get to editing these shots, the more ideas I get that will require multiple repeat trips.

The big difficulty is that most of the strangeness of it comes from telephoto compression. But that means either shallow depth of field or using a tripod for long exposures at f11 or more, which isn't always possible for reasons.

The U.S.-Mexico border fence/wall as seen through a telephoto lens from a hill across the valley. The fence is 30' tall rusty steel bollards (posts) with metal plates across the top to prevent people from climbing over. Seen here, it winds at improbably angles up a small hill, curves to follow the contours and then crests a larger hill and disappears around a corner. The low afternoon sunlight through the fence casts pinstripe shadows across the cement slab surface of the road that parallels it. On either side are brown, grassy hills.
#Border#BorderWall
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