Correction: Border-Wall-Wells story

In a story published Aug. 3, 2026, about wells for border wall construction, The Associated Press erroneously reported the distance of the wells from the border

Customs and Border Protection has ordered construction crews building Trump’s second border wall to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico after ranchers said pumping the groundwater needed to mix cement could threaten their livestock

The Trump administration has ordered construction crews on a border wall to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico after ranchers said pumping groundwater needed to make concrete could threaten their livestock.

The Trump administration ordered construction crews to stop drilling industrial wells in New Mexico, currently in the throes of a drought, after local farmers complained it could put them out of business. The construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has been one of President Donald Trump’s main priori

Residents and farmers say contractors have tapped border aquifers that threaten water supply for those nearby Construction crews building a border wall in New Mexico were ordered to stop drilling new wells after ranchers said that pumping groundwater to produce concrete could threaten their livestock amid a severe drou

Contractors building border wall ordered to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico  AP News