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The following live blog will be continuously updated throughout a 10-day BorderReport.com Tour. A team of journalists will travel more than 1,700 miles across four states telling impactful and unique stories along the US-Mexico border. The tour started Sunday, September 22 in San Diego and will end Tuesday, October 1 in Brownsville, Texas.
Tuesday 10:15 p.m. CT
The BorderReport.com Tour has come to a close. Earlier this evening, our team gathered to share thoughts and reflections on this journey along the US-Mexico border. You can watch below:
Tuesday 6:35 p.m. CT
The existing border wall in the city of Hidalgo isn't on the exact U.S.-Mexico border, and since 2009, it's crossed down the Hidalgo Pumphouse World Birding Center.
The wall was approved through the Secure Fence Act of 2006. According to a 2008 article from The New York Times, the Department of Homeland Security issued two waivers that wouldn't require environmental reviews before the barriers were built. The waivers covered more than 400 miles of the border from California to Texas. A separate 22-mile stretch was also approved in Hidalgo County.
Click here to continue reading this story from Anna Wiernicki.
Tuesday 5:20 p.m. CT
Our team has made it to Cameron County in South Texas. After 10 days on the road, this will be our final stop.
Tuesday 4:35 p.m. CT
As John David Franz got within miles of his family's 1,000-acre ranch in a vast and desolate part of South Texas recently, he saw two Border Patrol agents in a truck on the last county road leading to his property.
They told him they were tracking 10 migrants who had been spotted in the area — a popular spot for migrants to try to circumvent the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Falfurrias. And they told him to call the station if he came across them.
Franz has experienced like that — and far worse. Click here to continue reading this story from Sandra Sanchez.
Tuesday 1:40 p.m. CT
For the past year, U.S. authorities and the government of Tamaulipas, Mexico, have been hunting criminals together, and the partnership has paid off.
Seven of 10 men wanted for criminal offenses ranging from murder to drug trafficking have been captured thanks to tips phoned in by residents on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and vetted by Department of Homeland Security employees.
Click here to continue reading this story from Julian Resendiz.
Tuesday 11:00 a.m. CT
The wall by the Hidalgo Pump House and World Birding Center is expected to go up by another 18-to-30 feet. That's because U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Monday starting in 2020, approximately 65 miles of a new border wall could go up in South Texas starting in 2020.
Click here to read the latest updates from CBP about the border wall in South Texas and the counties that will eventually see construction.
Tuesday 10:15 a.m. CT
After going days without seeing a border wall, our crew arrived in Hidalgo, Texas where pedestrian fencing is quite frequent. The picture below is from the Hidalgo Pump House and World Birding Center.
Tuesday 5:55 a.m. CT
Unbeknownst to many in the United States, the Laredo Ports of Entry, a sprawling system in South Texas comprised of four vehicular international bridges, one international rail bridge and one airport surpassed the Los Angeles ports as having the most incoming value of goods into the United States in March.
That month, the Port of Laredo's overall trade value was $20.09 billion. The Port of Los Angeles' was $19.66 billion, according to Forbes.com.
Click here to continue reading this story from Sandra Sanchez.
Tuesday 5:40 a.m. CT
The final day of the BorderReport.com Tour takes us to Brownsville, Texas.
After seeing open borders with Mexico for the last few days of the trip, our team will start seeing pedestrian fencing again. According to maps from RevealNews.org and the Center for Investigative Reporting, this area of the state has quite a bit of border wall.
Monday 11:00 p.m. CT
On Tuesday, the Border Report team will wrap up its 10-day tour along the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville. Right now, it's staying the night in McAllen. McAllen is the largest city in the Rio Grande Valley.
This comes as the U.S. Customs and Border Protections announces that around 65 miles of a new border wall could go up in this region starting next year.
Just this August, McAllen Mayor Jim Darling told Border Report that "it's safer here than in a lot of cities in the United States.
As border issues continue as part of the conversation in the city, Border Report learned in August that McAllen was named the seventh-safest city in America, according to FBI statistics.
Mayor Darling says there were no murders in the city during 2018.
Here's a previous story by correspondent Sandra Sanchez about the humanitarian respite center in McAllen.
Here's also an in-depth look at the reports filed from Laredo before it began live shots from McAllen in the evening.
Click here to read the latest story about how steps are being taken to speed up trade at the border
And Border Report Correspondent Sandra Sanchez received a tour at the Port of Laredo. The Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge is the busiest passenger bridge in Laredo.
Monday 7:30 p.m. CT
During tonight's live reports from the Rio Grande in McAllen, a Border Patrol helicopter hovered over the river for some 35 minutes.
In the clip above, BorderReport.com's Anna Wiernicki explains what may be happening.
Monday 2:40 p.m. CT
The Border Report team just left Laredo.
Residents of Laredo Anna Wiernicki spoke with say it's not uncommon to see people attempt to swim across the Rio Grande into the U.S. Some residents also see them rafting.
Laredo and its neighboring city in Mexico, Nuevo Laredo, are separated by just under 200 feet of water in some areas.
Click here for a photo gallery of images captured by photojournalist Ozzie Carrillo of people swimming in the Rio Grande by Los Dos Laredos Park.
Monday 12:10 p.m. CT
The Border Report team will make its way to McAllen this evening. Reporter Julian Resendiz was up this morning at the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge in Laredo.
This is one of four bridges in the international bridge system.
A report posted by the City of Laredo in 2018 says the Laredo Customs district's set a record of $303.37 billion in trade with the world.
Monday 5:45 a.m. CT
The team is waking up in Laredo for day nine of the Border Report Tour. Laredo is one of the few towns in South-Central Texas with some pedestrian fencing along the border. But as you'll see on this map from RevealNews.org and the Center for Investigative Reporting, there's isn't very much of it.
Sunday 11:00 p.m. CT
The Border Report team has wrapped up day eight of its 10-day tour along the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Here are the stories dispatched from the team today:
Click here to learn about why El Cenizo, a town that once gained national attention for its Spanish-only ordinances, is now embracing bilingualism
Click here to read about the Americans who cross over into Mexico for medications, eye care and more
Click here to read about how the Migrant Protection Protocols have impacted a respite center in Del Rio
Border Patrol agents who patrol the Rio Grande in Laredo say they see around 60 to 70 migrants who cross the border daily. Here's a video clip of a CBP boat patrolling the river:
Sunday 2:30 p.m. CT
The Border Report team is currently in El Cenizo. It's a town of fewer than 4,000 people. It's right outside the city of Laredo and is a part of Webb County.
About 20 years ago, El Cenizo voted to declare Spanish as its official language. It also made the town a "safe haven" for illegal immigrants. Now, residents say there's a growing emphasis on having everything bilingual.
"It's better because for the jobs and everything you know, you have to talk in English," Martin Gallegos, a resident of El Cenizo for 40 years, said.
The city was one of the plaintiffs that also challenged SB 4, which banned sanctuary cities in Texas. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the law prioritized public safety.
"There are deadly consequences to not enforcing the law, and Texas has now become a state where those practices are not tolerated. With this bill we are doing away with those that seek to promote lawlessness in Texas," Abbott said.
Then-mayor Raul Reyes told NBC News at the time he was concerned about the law's impact on the town's immigrant population and possible racial profiling.
Originally, the law was temporarily blocked from going into effect as both cities and counties took the state to federal court. In March 2018, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that unblocked most of the law.
Sunday 7:05 a.m. CT
One question we continue to receive on social media: what does the truck you're driving look like? Needless to say, it's a specially outfitted vehicle. It has seven cameras — including a couple on top of the vehicle.
We're using the SUV for broadcast liveshots and nightly live streams. Here's a closer look at the BorderReport.com Tour truck:
Sunday 6:30 a.m. CT
Through seven days of our BorderReport.com Tour, we've been able to document the border wall in California, Arizona, New Mexico and portions of West Texas.
While there are spots where an imposing 30-foot wall serves as a deterrent for illegal immigrant, there are other places that could be easily crossed if not for Border Patrol enforcing the area.
Click here to see 5 things we've learned about the border wall.
Saturday 8:15 p.m. CT
The BorderReport.com team is now in Eagle Pass. The team stopped by the Rio Grande, which is what separates this region from Mexico.
According to RevealNews.org, the Eagle Pass Municipal Golf Course in the city is in between the Rio Grande and sections of the border fence that was approved during former President George W. Bush's administration.
Saturday 6:25 p.m. CT
The BorderReport.com team rolled through Del Rio, Texas shortly before nightfall and was able to speak with locals about security in the area.
While Del Rio has a pedestrian fence in part of the city, much of the area has open borders with Mexico.
RELATED LINKS: Del Rio residents on the Rio Grande say they feel safe, despite no border wall
You can see their full conversation as part of a Facebook Live broadcast below:
Saturday 4:45 p.m. CT
During our tour of the Brite Ranch Friday in West Texas, the owner provided us with images of what appear to be illegal immigration that were taken by his security system.
You'll want to click here to see more of the images.
Saturday 12 p.m. CT
Reporter Anna Wiernicki and photographer Ozzie Carrillo are currently shooting a story at Big Bend Saddlery, located in Alpine.
The shop opened in 1905 and is located on the east side of town. It's about 90 miles from the U.S. – Mexico border. The shop's owner says it still feels the impact of what's taking place at the border.
Saturday 8:15 a.m. CT
BorderReport.com's Sandra Sanchez shared an emotional picture this morning of Border Patrol agents rendering IVs and aid to a migrant crossing remote desert in Big Bend National Park.
This photo was provided by the Border Patrol. Agents say it's mainly Guatemalans crossing.
The woman in this photo is pregnant.
Saturday 6:45 a.m. CT
The BorderReport.com team will spend much of our day in the car as we make the 5-hour drive to Eagle Pass. This is day 7 of the BorderReport.com tour.
According to mapping from RevealNews.org and the Center for Investigative Reporting, there will be only two small border barriers during today's trip: one in Del Rio and the other in Eagle Pass.
The rest of the trip will have open borders with Mexico, according to the mapping.
Saturday 6:35 a.m. CT
Border Patrol agents who patrol a remote stretch of vast wilderness in West Texas say a surge of migrants — mostly families coming from Honduras — are taking a toll.
Roberto Dominguez, who is Patrol Agent in Charge of the U.S. Border Patrol's Alpine Station, which includes the Big Bend Sector, said that children as young as 18 months old are being brought through this desolate stretch where the Chihuahuan Desert meets the Chisos Mountains on the border with Mexico.
Click here to continue reading this eye-opening original report from BorderReport.com's Sandra Sanchez.
Friday 10 p.m. CT
The Border Report team just wrapped up the sixth day of its 10-day tour. Tonight, the team will stay in Alpine.
Here are the remaining cities the tour will go through:
- Eagle Pass
- Laredo
- McAllen
- Brownsville
According to the City of Eagle Pass' website, Eagle Pass serves as one of the very few international border crossing points for railroad traffic. Two international bridges help with vehicular traffic and one bridge is set aside specifically to help with commercial truck traffic.
The crew ended their day with a Facebook Live recapping what happened on Friday:
Friday 4:30 p.m. CT
Border Report correspondent Julian Resendiz is covering a story about the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol's Air and Marine Operations (AMO) station in Alpine, Texas.
According to the CBP, the AMO plays a critical role in monitoring the Southwest region for smuggling of narcotics and illegal immigrants. It spans more than 2,000 miles of area that includes harsh terrain.
"AMO in the Southwest Region has been a long-standing deterrent to the alien, drug and terrorist smuggling threat," the CBP says.
The unit makes between eight to 10 flights per week over Big Bend National Park and all the land north of a 100-mile stretch of the Rio Grande bordering the Mexican states of Coahuila and Chihuahua. The Big Bend Sector of the Border Patrol is 165,000 square miles. The land is rugged and hot, becoming unbearably humid after any summer rains.
Click here to read Border Report Correspondent Julian Resendiz's story to learn more about how the AMO responds when its agents come across migrants.
Friday 3:05 p.m. CT
Brite Ranch trustee Jim White says before installing more security cameras and additional barriers around his ranch, he and law enforcement caught nearly $40 million worth of drugs the cartels tried to smuggle across his land.
Click here to read what changes have been made at Brite and what's being done to address illegal immigration.
Friday 2:45 p.m. CT
After coming off the water, BorderReport.com's Sandra Sanchez caught up with Border Patrol agents at the Alpine station to discuss illegal immigration in Big Bend. You'll be able to read more later when Sandra files her story.
Friday 2:15 p.m. CT
There's a new interactive tool on BorderReport.com to allow you to follow our team's journey from California to Brownsville, Texas. The map lets you see the stories our team has filed along the way. You can check it out here.
Friday 1:40 p.m. CT
BorderReport.com's Sandra Sanchez spent Friday morning river rafting along the Rio Grande. In the photo above, the United States is on the right and Mexico is to the left.
In most cases, there's no border barrier in place. The river serves as the point of separation between the two counties.
Friday 11:45 a.m. CT
Our team has arrived at Brite Ranch to take an aerial tour of the border near Marfa. This will give our team a unique view of the challenges along the international line in West Texas south of the El Paso region.
BorderReport.com's Anna Wiernicki will take a deep dive into the history of the property. Check back in a couple hours for that report.
The Brite Ranch may be most known for a raid on the early 20th century. You can click here to learn all about it.
Friday 9:40 a.m. CT
As our team travels through West Texas outside of Valentine, there is no man-made barrier between Mexico and the United States. Only a few populated areas of the state have pedestrian fencing. One of those locations is El Paso.
You can click here to see photojournlist Henry Takai's video above one of the border walls in El Paso.
Friday 9:15 a.m. CT
When we stopped in Arizona at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 500-mile federal natural reserve in southwest Arizona, there was real concern for the long-term environmental impact caused by a border wall.
BorderReport.com's Sandra Sanchez explains why environmentals feel the barrier could damage the area, which is named after the organ pipe cactus.
Friday 9:05 a.m. CT
The migrant shelters are now empty, but one southern New Mexico community is still dealing with the aftermath of this year's surge of Central Americans.
The City of Deming and Luna County issued emergency declarations after asylum seekers overwhelmed the local Border Patrol station in May. The agency closed a highway checkpoint, leading to residents' fears of drug and immigrant smuggling and the federal government began transferring migrants caught near El Paso, Texas to Deming.
Julian Resendiz explores why the city is now hoping to collect $300,000 from the federal government.
Friday 8:30 a.m. CT
Our team is heading to a ranch south of Valentine, Texas that is regularly impacted by immigration. We'll work to provide you with updates throughout the day — as long as this cow leaves the roadway.
Friday 6:15 a.m. CT
The BorderReport.com team will begin our day in the area of Marfa, Texas. As we found out Thursday after coming into the state, this portion of the state doesn't have any fencing or barriers. Our crew will explore the area today and get a look at how the region is enforced without a wall on the international line.
In this interaction with Border Patrol during last night's stream, agents discuss the fact there's no fencing.
Thursday 9:00 p.m. CT
After leaving El Paso, our BorderReport.com team quickly learned much of Texas has no walls, fencing or vehicle barriers on the international line.
While outside of town, Anna Wiernicki reported along the border — and the BorderReport.com livestream on Thursday evening highlighted a spot without any barriers.
You can watch that Facebook Live below. Here's a closer look at a map that shows the spots without border barriers beyond El Paso.
Thursday 5:25 p.m. MT
Reporter Anna Wiernicki is going live for stations across Nexstar Media Group. Her first few live shots are in front of a privately funded border wall.
The project was completed at the beginning of June 2019. It's built on private property belonging to the American Eagle Brick Company and was funded by the group "We Build the Wall." It raised more than $20 million through a viral GoFundMe campaign.
The Border Report team is headed to Marfa for the night.
Thursday 3:05 p.m. MT
One of our first stops in El Paso was the memorial for the August mass shooting that law enforcement says targeted the Hispanic community.
22 people were killed and another 24 were hurt. The FBI is investigating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a possible hate crime.
Even with nearly two months passing, the memorial remains very active. The Walmart where the shooting took place is expected to reopen later this year.
Click here to read Steffi Lee's story about why the Zaragosa Rotary Club's volunteers are spending several hours each week preserving the memorial.
Thursday 2:00 p.m. MT
Our team has arrived in Texas. The Lonestar State shares from 1200 miles of border with Mexico – which is much more than any other state. Our team won't cover every inch of that but will drive some 1000 miles over the next 5 days to see various points along the border.
In the El Paso area, there's quite a bit of pedestrian fencing or border wall, according to an analysis from RevealNews.org and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Our team will work to get a good look at the barriers and bring you images and video.
Thursday 1:20 p.m. MT
It's been more than 100 years since Pancho Villa invaded the small town of Columbus, New Mexico. It's one of the few times the United States has ever been invaded.
Reporter Anna Wiernicki learned that local businesses say the Battle of Columbus is actually what drives nearly all of the tourism here.
"Once a year we have an event here," Phillip Skinner, who owns the Los Milagros Hotel in Columbus, said. "It's a celebration of the relationship, of the good relationship that we have with Mexico. Riders start way down in Mexico, they ride for a couple of weeks, they come to Palomas, Palomas has a party for them and then those riders cross the border the next day. They get special permission to cross the border and they ride up here. There's a switching of flags. The relationship's very good."
Irma Gonzales, who runs the restaurant Irma's Kitchen, sees the effects of tourism too.
"The tourists, they do talk about Pancho Villa, she said. "They go to the museum too and learn about the history of him."
Thursday 9:00 a.m. MT
Students from Mexico cross the border every day to attend school in the U.S. Border Report correspondent Sandra Sanchez met dozens of students Thursday morning in Columbus, New Mexico as they were traveling into town for classes. They either travel into the towns of Deming or Columbus for school.
The principal of Columbus Elementary School told Sanchez that more than 550 children at Columbus Elementary live in Palomas, Mexico and cross daily for school.
Click here to read Sandra's story about why so kids from Palomas attending schools in New Mexico are citizens of the United States, while their parents may not be.
Thursday 5:30 a.m. MT
The BorderReport.com team is waking up in New Mexico after completing travel through California and Arizona. After coming across massive pedestrian fences in those states, they'll likely only see minimal "wall" while navigating through New Mexico. According to RevealNews.org and the Center for Investigative Reporting, the state has two spots with pedestrian fencing. For the most part, vehicle barriers are in place. However, you'll see on the map below there are wide stretches without any sort of fencing or vehicle barriers.
RELATED LINK: Photos of the various border barriers in Arizona
Thursday 5:20 a.m. MT
According to the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, its agents have encountered and closed 113 illicit cross-border tunnels in the Nogales-area Border Patrol Station. A large portion of these tunnels have been found in downtown Nogales, within a one-mile radius of the DeConcini land crossing.
Julian Resendiz spoke to people who have experience dealing with these tunnels and their aftermath. Follow the link for his insightful story.
Wednesday 7:30 p.m. PT
The BorderReport.com Team left Arizona on Wednesday night after traveling along multiple spots on the international line. We got a look at the various types of barriers in the state — from massive pedestrian fences to nothing but a couple lines of barbed wire.
Here's an extended clip of the fencing outside of Nogales:
Wednesday 2:00 p.m. PT
A rancher told reporter Anna Wiernicki that there was a spot outside of Nogales, Arizona without a wall. Wiernicki found it with her team of photographers. Local ranchers, like Daniel Bell, told Border Report said the border wall likely ended due to terrain and lack of funding at the time. The wall has been there for more than a decade, Bell said.
Click here to read Anna Wiernicki's story with two border ranchers about what it's like for them to maintain the area where the U.S. – Mexico border meets parts of their land.
Wednesday 1:15 p.m. PT
Tucson Samaritans, a nonprofit humanitarian aid group that provides water and emergency supplies to migrants in the southern Arizona desert, brought Border Report correspondent Sandra Sanchez on a three-hour tour Wednesday. The group searched for migrant footprints and provided aid during the tour.
Wednesday 1:00 p.m. PT
Some members who are part of the Hia Ced O'odham (sand people) tribe say they're "devastated" about a 30-foot-tall border wall that will soon to be built through what's considered the tribe's sacred and "spiritual lands" in southwestern Arizona.
Click here to read Sandra Sanchez's story about the worries Nellie Jo David, who is part of the Hia Ced O'odham tribe, has about how the border wall can impact tribal ancestral remains in Arizona.
Wednesday 10:00 a.m. PT
While downtown Nogales and the populated areas of town have large pedestrian fencing, areas outside of the city have vehicle barriers or no fencing at all, according to a rancher we spoke with.
This matches up with reporting from RevealNews.org and the Center for Investigative Reporting (our location in purple). Reporter Anna Wiernicki will be profiling this aspect of the border wall story as the day develops.
Wednesday 8:30 a.m. PT
Border states certainly understand the value of trade with Mexico, and Arizona is trying to take advantage of economic opportunities.
An Arizona airport is seto to become the first in the United States to pre-clear items shipped to anywhere in Mexico. Under the SkyBridge Arizona project, Mexican customs inspectors will be based at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport and approve items for immediate delivery to any Mexican city, reports Julian Resendiz.
Click here to read his full story on this massive economic breakthrough for Arizona.
Wednesday 7:50 a.m. PT
Arizona is home to a variety of barriers on the international line. Vehicle barriers, like the two pictured below, are the most common. However, there's plenty of fencing along the populated towns and ports of entry.
Click here for a gallery of border barriers throughout Arizona.
Wednesday 7:10 a.m. PT
On a rainy Wednesday morning, students are huddled under awning at Nogales High School as busses drop teens off ahead of the first bell.
While this school may look like any other, it's estimated hundreds of students cross over from Mexico each morning to attend schools in Nogales. According to numerous reports, many parents use an address on the U.S. side to ensure their kids can register.
Wednesday 7:00 a.m. PT
While we may have been able to get feet from the wall in Nogales, Arizona, getting next to the fencing isn't always easy. Reporter Sandra Sanchez found that out Saturday in San Diego. As you'll see in the video below, a Border Patrol agent threatened her with arrest.
Wednesday 5:45 a.m. PT
Border Patrol agents tell us it's not uncommon to find plastic black jugs in the fields within a few miles of the international. It turns out the darker jugs are used by migrants because they're sturdy and won't melt in the sun. The agent says most migrants will bring at least two with them and they're often connected by rope.
As we came within a mile of the border fence near Lukeville Tuesday, we spotted one of the jugs in the middle of the road.
Wednesday 5:30 a.m. PT
While in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on Tuesday, Sandra Sanchez spoke with members of the Tohono O'odham Nation about the wall being built directly next to their land.
For them, the land and what it represents is sacred. The Tohono O'odham people say it's possible the fencing will be constructed on important archaeological sites.
Tuesday 9:20 p.m. PT
About 50 of volunteers for the Tucson Samaritans gathered Tuesday night at the Southside Presbyterian Church. The group drops water and emergency supplies in the Sonoran desert in the hopes that migrants will find it. At the meeting, volunteer after volunteer told the group where they had been replacing water that past week, reported whether they had come across any migrants. They group even discussed what to do if they come upon bones or what they might believe are human remains.
Sandra Sanchez will be going out with the group on Wednesday morning and bring your their story later this week.
Tuesday 8:30 p.m. PT
Our BorderReport.com team made the trek from Lukeville to Nogales which included a stop through Tucson. Because of the rugged terrain, we had to travel 60 miles north to get around and navigate back to the southern border.
We arrived in Nogales around dusk and spent roughly an hour moving through town and getting within feet of the border wall. Reporter Julian Resendiz provided a unique perspective on the history of the wall and underground tunnels in the border town during this livestream:
Tuesday 5:45 p.m PT
For acres in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Park there's nothing, but cacti. But as you drive closer to the Lukeville Port of Entry, the road signs turn into caution signs — warning visitors of "smuggling and illegal immigration."
People who live in the area are used to the border wall. What concerns them: the impact on wildlife.
Anna Wiernicki explored how the wall construction is impacting the area.
Tuesday 1:30 p.m. PT
While touring the edge of the pedestrian fence near Lukeville, Arizona, our BorderReport.com team found an exposed area of the border fencing. While there would be a few barriers to navigate around, it doesn't appear as if it would be too difficult to cross.
After standing along that area for about 10 minutes, Mexican law enforcement came over and sat in their vehicle.
Tuesday 12:15 p.m. PT
Border Patrol allowed our BorderReport.com team down a dirt road in Lukeville, Arizona to view the area where fencing was being expanded by construction crews. The agent on duty told us much of the wall was already in place and crews have been working on an additional few miles for the last month or so.
In the video, you'll see an old vehicle barrier behind the newer fencing.
Tuesday 11:10 a.m. PT
Border wall construction may be underway in Organ Pipe Catcus National Monument Park, but we won't be able to get an up-close look. The roadway is closed off due to the work. We are able to catch some unique views of this new pedestrian wall from our Border Report Tour truck and its roof-mounted cams. We'll share that with you as this journey continues.
Tuesday 10:20 a.m. PT
After a two hour drive, we arrived at the port of entry in Lukeville, Arizona. For the first time, we were able to get within feet of the pedestrian wall. To this point, this appears to be the least secure wall or fence we've come across.
On the other side of the wall was armed Mexican security or law enforcement. He was sitting when we arrived on the US side. After spotting us, he blew a whistle and began to walk around the area.
Tuesday 7:00 a.m. PT
The BorderReport.com team is now traveling through Arizona. As you'll see on the map below from RevealNews.org and the Center for Investigative Reporting, about one-third of the state has pedestrian fencing.
The majority of Arizona has vehicle barriers. This type of fencing is designed to keep cars from driving through the international line. As you can imagine, it's not nearly as secure as fencing or a wall.
Other portions of the state have no fencing. It most cases, these are spots with very rough terrain.
Tuesday 5:55 a.m. PT
During Monday evening's drive from California into Arizona, the BorderReport.com team as able to document the various types of fencing along the US-Mexico border. Anna Wiernicki and team drove as close to the border as possible visiting ports of entry using roadways that hugged the international line.
Tuesday 5:00 a.m. PT
Issues that are as politically divisive as immigration, the building of a border wall and enforcement of the border often draw negative impressions from the public about what these agents do in the field. During an exclusive interview with BorderReport.com, U.S. Border Patrol agents Justin Castregon said even the term wall vs. fence draws criticism.
"Whatever the kind of nomenclature is used, it's important to remember that it is going to help us do our job much better and much safer. It's not the one and only element that will help us to complete our mission but its a very big part of that," Castregon said.
Click here to continue reading this revealing and eye-opening piece from Sandra Sanchez.
Monday 7:45 p.m. PT
The Border Report team traveled through California Monday afternoon arriving in Arizona shortly after dark. During the trip, they were able to document different styles of barriers in place to separate the United States and Mexico.
Monday 5:00 p.m. PT
More than 100,000 people cross the San Diego-Tijuana border every day to go to school, work, to see a doctor or to go shopping. The San Ysidro Port of Entry is one of the busiest land-border crossings in the world.
The cross-border commute is common. Jason Wells with the San Ysidro Chamber of Commerce says a lot of U.S. residents choose to live in Mexico.
BorderReport.com's Anna Wiernicki profiles the cross border commuting lifestyle.
Monday 4:15 p.m. PT
The immigration debate in the United States sometimes annoys middle-class Baja residents, but it doesn't stop them from crossing the border to shop in San Diego.
Shopping centers like Las Americas Premium Outlets were packed with Spanish-speaking customers this weekend, some literally leaving with a suitcase full of clothes from stores like Old Navy, Levi's and Nautica. BorderReport.com's Julian Resendiz shows the impact they have on San Diego's economy.
Monday 3:15 p.m. PT
As we continue our trip through California, we're seeing an increased number of Border Patrol agents. That included a group of six agents and a dog looking through brush outside Campo. They wouldn't tell us what they were doing.
Despite rough and mountainous terrain, one agent in a different location down the road says he regular sees people crossing. Where he was positioned there was no fence or barrier in place.
Monday 1:45 p.m. PT
We stopped in Tecate, California right along the border. A pedestrian fence is in place that appears to have 30 foot beams. However, there are spots without beams that look like they'd be easy to comprise. Even so, Border Patrol agents are on standby to quickly respond to the area.
Monday 1:15 p.m. PT
As we leave San Diego, we're driving roughly 4 hours. Along the way, we'll travel 170 miles along the California-Mexico border. According to an analysis from RevealNews.org, the majority of the barrier along the border in California is pedestrian fence. However, there are many spots with no border fence or simply a vehicle fence. We'll do our best to stop and document the different types of border barriers along the way.
Monday 11:10 a.m. PT
Our BorderReport.com Tour crew spoke with dozens of people who come from Mexico each day to work in the United States. In many cases, these workers are Americans who live across the border to save money.
Click the video above to hear from reporter Anna Wiernicki and photojournalist Ozzie Carrillo.
Monday 10:45 a.m. PT
A privately funded airport terminal called Cross Border Xpress is a unique port of entry that allows only airline passengers using the Tijuana International Airport to cross from the United States to Mexico, and it generates enough revenue to pay the salaries of all the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents who work there.
Reporter Sandra Sanchez takes us inside this port of entry by air.
Monday 9:50 a.m. PT
BorderReport.com's Sandra Sanchez is getting an up-close look at the border wall and the various types of fencing being used. She'll be traveling with the Border Patrol for the next few hours.
Monday 9:30 a.m. PT
On a Monday morning, you'll find roughly 100,000 people coming through the San Ysidro port of entry into the U.S. from Mexico for work. In some cases, people travel hours to get to work. Lorena Soto is one of them.
Soto tells BorderReport.com she commutes about an hour from Mexico and then travels an additional few hours by bus to Beverly Hills. She'll work there for the week and then return to Mexico on Friday.
Monday 9:05 a.m. PT
The mayor of Imperial Beach, California is in Washington, D.C. this morning preparing to meet with officials to discuss sewage and toxic chemicals flowing into the United States – specifically his beach on the border.
Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina told Border Report that he has meetings at the White House scheduled on Tuesday with top officials who he hopes will help this situation.
Sandra Sanchez explains the issue, the response from Mexico and why the mayor is demanding the issue be addressed right now.
Monday 8:30 a.m. PT
Our Border Report crew is in multiple places this morning tracking a variety of stories focused on employment opportunities in the U.S. Julian Resendiz is looking at day laborers and the controversy associated with practices in San Diego. Anna Wiernicki is speaking with people who commute to the U.S. each day from Mexico.
Sandra Sanchez will be spending the day with the Border Patrol in San Diego. To get updates from her throughout her travels, be sure you're following her on Twitter.
Monday 6:30 a.m. PT
The BorderReport.com Tour truck is equipped with seven cameras to allow for an engaging and interactive experience as we travel the border. If you're watching coverage on a Nexstar station, evening reports in newscasts will likely originate from the vehicle.
We'll also produce nightly streams as the crew travels from point to point. If you'd like to ask questions, you can do so on our Facebook Live feeds or use the hashtag #BorderReport on Twitter.
Monday 5:40 a.m. PT
When she was a senior in high school, Dulce Garcia knew what to do with her life: go to college and get a degree, go to law school and make a million dollars by the time she turned 30. However, life doesn't always work out as planned.
As she matured, Garcia found herself drawn to the group Border Angels. As part of this organization, she's focusing her empowerment on providing legal, educational and community services to unauthorized immigrants already living here and delivering humanitarian aid to migrants coming across the border.
As our Julian Resendiz found out, the latter enterprise is bringing her as face to face with America's deep-seeded divisions on illegal immigration.
Monday 5:00 a.m. PT
The BorderReport.com Tour crew is up earlier than usual to document workers who commute across the border each morning.
Local business leaders told BorderReport.com's Anna Wiernicki tens of thousands of people cross each day. In many cases, they're doing so for economic opportunities.
Sunday 6:50 p.m. PT
Where the border wall begins in San Diego, you'll find two very different places. The American side centers around enforcement and border agents. On the Mexican side, you'll find commerce like a Walmart, Starbucks and Dairy Queen.
Despite the different landscapes between that portion of San Diego and Tijuana, there's a park at the border that brings people together. This is especially true on Sundays when they hold a cross border church celebration.
Anna Wiernicki filed this unique look at the service — and how plans were disrupted Sunday due to an incident.
As noted at the bottom of Sunday's blog, you'll see two walls in Friendship Park. It's not uncommon to see Mexicans peering through the steel beams. On the U.S. side, people aren't allowed to walk directly up to the fence.
Sunday 3:05 p.m. PT
Friendship Park closed its gates at 2 p.m. They'll open again next Saturday for people to have the opportunity to greet friends and loved ones in Mexico.
At this point, only a few people remain in the U.S. side of the park. However, parkgoers in San Diego can smell what's cooking on the other side of the wall. Loud music and the smell of freshly cooked food fill the area.
Sunday 1:45 p.m. PT
Because of what was described by Border Patrol agents as an "incident," Pastor Fanestil had to conduct Sunday service through two walls. He spoke on the American side of the border through a speaker on the Mexican side.
Some people in San Diego who came hoping to take part in the service expressed frustration while looking on from afar.
Sunday 1:15 p.m. PT
A few minutes from now, Pastor John Fanestil will co-host a cross-border church service. He'll stand on one side of the border wall presenting the service while a Mexican pastor does the same on his side of the wall.
In most cases, only 10 people are allowed into the service on the U.S. side. Others will outside of a gate and look on. Dozens are expected to participate in Mexico.
In this clip, Pastor Fenestil describes the history of serving communion at the wall.
Sunday 12:30 p.m. PT
One very unique thing about the border wall in San Diego: it comes right out of the ocean. Photojournalist Ozzie Carrillo captured these standout images of the 18-foot high structure.
Sunday 10:30 a.m. PT
Our first stop was at Friendship Park which is located inside Border Field State Park in San Diego. During select times on the weekends, people can walk directly up to the wall to potentially interact with loved ones and family members.
Sunday 8:30 a.m. PT
Our journey along the US-Mexico border begins in San Diego where President Trump visited Thursday to tout new border wall construction that replaced an easily comprised portion of fencing built in the 1990s.
The 14 miles of wall was originally proposed by the Obama administration and funded by the Trump administration in 2017. This fencing is 18 feet tall and been labeled a "world class security system" by the president.
During Thursday's stop in San Diego, Trump highlighted features of the wall, which he said have been studied by three other countries. He said the wall absorbs heat — "You can fry an egg on that wall." The concrete goes deep into the ground to prevent tunneling. And agents can see through it to spot possible threats on the Mexican side of the border, he said.
"When the wall is built, it will be virtually impossible to come over illegally, and then we're able to take border control and put them at points of entry," Trump said.
Construction actively continues on a secondary fence in San Diego. This portion features 30-foot beams. It's roughly 20 feet north of the primary wall. Construction is expected to be complete in January 2020.
Mapping from Reveal News and the Center for Investigating Reporting shows the intricate layers of fencing along the border in San Diego. The barriers in and around San Diego are pedestrian fences.
RELATED LINK: The barriers that make up the border wall
(The Associated Press contributed to this update)
Visit the BorderReport.com homepage for the latest exclusive stories and breaking news about issues along the United States-Mexico border.


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Oklahoma victims in the path of this horrific tornado need our help. Kirisyko at Sykose 's, new post, How to help Oklahoma tornado victims is reblogged here to immediately help those in dire need of many basic necessities and services for the immediate future. (more on that later) Many lost everything and have no insurance coverage! They need OUR HELP!
Unsurprisingly, we both choose the same picture for our posts. This picture has captured the minds, hearts and curiosities of millions. (Most of my images are from google images, then Adobe Photoshop and captioned by me)
This little boy is this man's neighbor. The raw emotion of love in that hug is a ray of hope and the most beautiful part of this picture to me.
This is what happens when we care for each other, in spite of,…
This post original author was by Suzanne Choney, Contributing Writer at NBC News:
By Suzanne Choney, Contributing Writer, NBC News
American Red Cross The Red Cross has set up shelters in various communities. You can donate to the Red Cross Disaster Relief fund here, and the organization also suggests giving blood at your local hospital or blood bank. Fundraising efforts were buoyed Tuesday by a $1 million pledge from Kevin Durant, of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team, via his family foundation.
If you're searching for a missing relative, check Red Cross Safe & Well's site. And please register if you're within the disaster region. The site is designed to make communication easier after a tragedy like this.
If you want to send a $10 donation to the Disaster Relief fund via text message, you can do so by texting the word REDCROSS to 90999. As in the case with other donations via mobile, the donation will show up on your wireless bill, or be deducted from your balance if you have a prepaid phone. You need to be 18 or older, or have parental permission, to donate this way. (If you change your mind, text the word STOP to 90999.)
The Red Cross also accepts frequent flier miles as donations. Delta, United Airlines and US Airways partner with the Red Cross throughout the year, which uses miles to help get volunteers and staff to key locations during disasters. (Note: The donation is not tax-deductible as the IRS considers it a gift.) For Delta, email: firstname.lastname@example.com with your SkyMiles number, the number of miles you want to donate, and specify the Red Cross as the charity. You can donate miles online at United Airlines Donate Your Miles and US Airways Dividend Miles.
Phone: 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767); for Spanish speakers, 1-800-257-7575; for TDD, 1-800-220-4095.
OK Strong Disaster Relief Fund The state of Oklahoma, coordinating with the United Way of Central Oklahoma, on Tuesday established the OK Strong Disaster Relief Fund to help "with the long-term medical, emotional and educational needs of victims of the May 20 tornado in Moore and the May 19 tornado near Shawnee."
Donations can be made online at UnitedWayOKC.org.
Phone: 1-405-236-8441.
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, working with the Oklahoma Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, is seeking monetary donations. To donate, visit the regional food bank's website, or give $10 by texting the word FOOD to 32333.
Phone: 1-405-972-1111
Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief This organization says donations will "go straight to help those in need providing tree removal services, laundry services and meals to victims of disasters."
It is requesting monetary donations (It says clothing is NOT needed). For more information, and to donate, visit Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief's website.
Salvation Army The Salvation Army is organizing disaster response units to serve hard-hit areas in central Oklahoma, including Moore, where it is sending mobile kitchens that can serve meals to 2,500 people a day, and to South Oklahoma City.
In Little Axe, Okla., the organization said, the army's Central Oklahoma Area Command Disaster Service Unit was busy feeding breakfast, lunch and dinner to people, "even as one of our Salvation Army family member's home was destroyed."
Supporters can donate online via the organization's website, SalvationArmyUSA.org. You can also text the word STORM to 80888 to make a $10 donation via cellphone.
If you want to send a check, the Salvation Army asks that you put the words "Oklahoma Tornado Relief" on the check, and mail it to: The Salvation Army, P.O. Box 12600, Oklahoma City, OK., 73157.
Phone: 1-800-SAL-ARMY (1-800-725-2769).
Feed the Children Feed the Children has set up five locations in Oklahoma City to accept donations to help victims of the Moore tornado. The organization is accepting items including diapers, canned goods, non-perishable food, snack items, water and sports drinks. The organization is also supporting mobile canteens in partnership with the Salvation Army and the Red Cross.
You can donate online, or make a $10 donation by texting the word DISASTER to 80888.
Phone: 1-800-627-4556
United Way of Central Oklahoma A disaster relief fund is being activated as of May 21 so that individuals can specifically donate to tornado relief-and-recovery efforts, the organization says on its site.
"Financial contributions are the best way to help unless otherwise requested." Donations can be made online at
United Way of Central Oklahoma's Disaster Relief Fund is open. Donations may be made online here. Checks, with a notation of "May Tornado Relief" can also be sent to the United Way of Central Oklahoma, P.O. Box 837, Oklahoma City, OK , 73101.
Feeding America Through its network of more than 200 food banks, Feeding America, whose mission is to "feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks," says it will deliver truckloads of food, water and supplies to communities in need, in Oklahoma, and will also "set up additional emergency food and supply distribution sites as they are needed." You can donate onlinehere.
Phone: 1-800-910-5524.
Operation USA The international relief group, based in Los Angeles, says it is "readying essential material aid — emergency, shelter and cleaning supplies" to help Oklahoma's community health organizations and schools recover.
You can donate online here. You can also give a $10 donation by texting the word AID to 50555. Checks should be sent to: Operation USA, 7421 Beverly Blvd., PH, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: 1-800-678-7255.
Convoy of Hope The Missouri-based nonprofit organization has done work in other disasters, including the Haiti earthquake, with a mission of getting food and water to those after disaster strikes. Now it's doing the same for Moore, Okla. You can donate online here. Convoy of Hope is also going the crowd-sourced route, using HopeMob, a site similar to Kickstarter but for raising money to help disaster victims and others in need, which charges no fees to the organizations that use it. Convoy of Hope's goal on the site is to raise $15,000 in seven days to help Moore.
"Why 7 days? In these first 7 days the town of Moore, OK will be consumed with clearing out destruction and accessing their needs," HopeMob says on its site. "Once those needs are known we want to be able to give them the funds to help them rebuild in the long term."
Phone: 1-800-988-0664
Direct Relief The Santa Barbara, Calif.-based, non-profit organization provides medical assistance and personal hygiene items to those hurt in disasters, as well as in other circumstances.
"So far we have heard from health center partners responding in Oklahoma and are preparing an emergency shipment to help support the efforts there. Direct Relief has been receiving requests for emergency supplies, personal care and protection items — including hygiene supplies, infection control products, gloves, soap, shampoo, deodorant, sanitary napkins, diapers, wipes and formula," said Kerri Murray, Direct Relief vice president, in an email.
To donate, visit DirectRelief.org.
Phone: 1-800-676-1638
AmeriCares The Emergency Response team for AmeriCares is in Oklahoma, "coordinating deliveries of emergency aid and assessing the needs of survivors and health care organizations in the disaster area."
Since 1982, the Connecticut-based nonprofit has delivered medicine, medical supplies and aid to those in need around the world and across the United States.
You can donate online here. You can also give a $10 donation by texting the word LIVE to 25383. Checks or money orders can be mailed to: AmeriCares, 88 Hamilton Ave., Stamford, CT 06902.
Phone: 1-800-486-HELP (1-800-486-4357)
Operation Blessing International Humanitarian organization Operation Blessing International, which last week coordinated more than 500 volunteers in Granbury, Texas, after that area was hit by a tornado, is working with The Home Depot and dispatching a construction unit, mobile command center, trucks with tools and supplies and a team of construction foremen to Moore.
Late Monday, Operation Blessing International also "loaded and deployed two tractor-trailer truckloads of food and emergency relief supplies from its warehouse in Dallas, Texas, in partnership with the humanitarian organization, Mercury One," said a Operation Blessing spokeswoman.
The Virginia Beach-based group's online link for donations is here.
Phone: 1-800-730-2537
Samaritan's Purse The international Christian relief organization focuses on cleaning and repairing damaged homes and sent two disaster relief units from North Wilkesboro, N.C. to Oklahoma Tuesday. "The tractor-trailers are stocked with heavy-duty plastic, chainsaws, generators, and other tools and equipment. The units also will serve as command centers for the response," Samaritan's Purse says on its website.
You can donate online here. You can also give a $10 donation by texting the word SP to 80888.
Phone: 1-800-528-1980
United Methodist Committee on Relief The committee works with local United Methodist churches and trained disaster response workers to help with cleanup and rebuilding, pastoral counseling and support for children and youth who have been through trauma.
You can donated online here. You can also give a $10 donation by texting the word RESPONSE to 80888.
Phone: 1-800-554-8583
LifeChurch.tv Life Church.tv, which describes itself as "Oklahoma's largest evangelical church," says its Oklahoma City metro locations will accept donations of items over the next week, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and distribute them to tornado victims. Among the items needed: Toiletries, diapers, wipes, formula, baby bottles, new clothing, new shoes, and bags, backpacks or plastic tubs for carrying items.
You can also donate money online by visiting LifeChurch.tv, or by texting the word RELIEF to 86613, and selecting an amount you would like to donate.
Phone: 1-405-216-7054
Jewish Federations of North America The Jewish Federations of North America is working with the Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma, which is coordinating efforts with a local food bank, Habitat for Humanity and the Red Cross. The Jewish Federations of North America has established an Oklahoma City Tornado Relief fund. Donors can contribute onlinehere.
Checks can also be sent to the JFNA national mailbox at: The Jewish Federations of North America, Wall Street Station, P.O. Box 148, New York, NY, 10268. Please indicate "JFNA Oklahoma City Tornado Relief Fund" on all checks or in the designation box online.
Oklahoma Tornado Relief 2013 The Oklahoma Tornado Relief 2013 fundraising effort is being done through a crowd-sourced effort using Fundly, a website for fundraising, akin to HopeMob, mentioned above. On the site, you'll find various fundraising causes to help tornado victims, and can choose which you'd like to support.
DonorsChoose.org DonorsChoose.org is creating a special online fund to collect donations for the teachers and schools of Moore, Okla., to help respond and rebuild. Donors Choose will work with the teachers of Moore to assess what they need for their classrooms and allow them to identify the real-time solutions and supplies their community and their students need: everything from clothing for their students to first-aid kits.
To donate, visit www.donorschoose.org
And a note of caution …
Emotions are running high, understandably, in light of the awful news from Oklahoma. Many of us want to help in some way. But this vulnerable time is also rife with and ripe for scammers who want to prey on your emotions and wallet. They may seek you out via email, knock on your door, or even try to get you to give money via Facebook.
The Federal Trade Commission has guidelines about charity donations, including these tips:
- Donate to charities you know and trust. Be alert for charities that seem to have sprung up overnight in connection with current events, like the tornadoes.
- Ask if a caller is a paid fundraiser, who they work for, and what percentage of your donation goes to the charity and to the fundraiser. If you don't get a clear answer — or if you don't like the answer you get — consider donating to a different organization.
- Don't give out personal or financial information — including your credit card or bank account number — unless you know the charity is reputable.
- Never send cash: you can't be sure the organization will receive your donation, and you won't have a record for tax purposes.
- Check out the charity with the Better Business Bureau's (BBB) Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, Charity Watch, or GuideStar.
- Find out if the charity or fundraiser must be registered in your state by contacting theNational Association of State Charity Officials.

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Ed Kennedy, Chief of the Associated Press staff in North Africa, at the Anzio beachhead in Italy, March 1, 1944 (AP file photo).
NEW YORK (AP/The Blaze) -- In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history. He reported, a full day ahead of the competition, that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally at a former schoolhouse in Reims, France.
For this, he was publicly rebuked by the AP, and then quietly fired.
Wait, why was he fired?
Kennedy had defied military censors to get the story out. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman had agreed to suppress news of the capitulation for a day, in order to allow Russian dictator Josef Stalin to stage a second surrender ceremony in Berlin.
So it had nothing to do with protecting the soldiers and everything to do with making sure "Uncle" Joseph Stalin was given enough time to stage the perfect photo-op.
Joseph Stalin, Harry S. Truman, & Winston Churchill
Kennedy was also accused of breaking a pledge that he and 16 other journalists had made to keep the surrender a secret for a time, as a condition of being allowed to witness it firsthand.
Sixty-seven years later, the AP's top executive is apologizing for the way the company treated Kennedy.
"It was a terrible day for the AP. It was handled in the worst possible way," said president and CEO Tom Curley.
Kennedy, he said, "did everything just right." Curley rejected the notion that the AP had a duty to obey the order to hold the story once it was clear the embargo was for political reasons, rather than to protect the troops.
"Once the war is over, you can't hold back information like that. The world needed to know," he said in an interview.
Curley, who is retiring this year, has also co-written an introduction to Kennedy's newly published memoir, "Ed Kennedy's War: V-E Day, Censorship & The Associated Press."
Kennedy, who died in a traffic accident in 1963, had long sought such public vindication from his old employer. His daughter, Julia Kennedy Cochran, of Bend, Ore., said she was "overjoyed" by the apology.
"I think it would have meant a lot to him," she said.
The German surrender happened at 2:41 a.m. French time on May 7, 1945.
Kennedy was one of 17 reporters taken to witness the ceremony. He and the others were hastily assembled by military commanders, then pledged to secrecy by a U.S. general while the group flew over France. As a condition of being allowed to see the surrender in person, the correspondents were barred from reporting what they had witnessed until authorized by Allied headquarters.
Initially, the journalists were told the news would be held up for only a few hours. But after the surrender was complete, the embargo was extended for 36 hours - until 3 p.m. the following day.
Kennedy was astounded.
"The absurdity of attempting to bottle up news of such magnitude was too apparent," he would later write.
Nevertheless, he initially stayed quiet. Then, at 2:03 p.m., the surrender was announced by German officials, via a radio broadcast from Flensburg, a city already in Allied hands. That meant, Kennedy knew, that the transmission had been authorized by the same military censors gagging the press.
Furious, Kennedy went to see the chief American censor and told him there was no way he could continue to hold the story. Word was out. The military had broken its side of the pact by allowing the Germans to announce the surrender. And there were no military secrets at stake.
The censor waved him off. Kennedy thought about it for 15 minutes, and then acted.
He used a military phone, not subject to monitoring by censors, to dispatch his account to the AP's London bureau. Notably, he didn't brief his own editors about the embargo or his decision to dodge the censors. The AP put the story on the wire within minutes of his call.
To some of Kennedy's competitors, the scoop was a betrayal on the scale of Pearl Harbor. Compounding their anger, military censors continued to refuse to allow any other news organization to send their own stories, meaning the AP would continue to have an exclusive for a day.
"I am browned off, fed up, burnt up and put out," wrote Drew Middleton, a New York Times correspondent. He called the suppression of the story "the most colossal 'snafu' in the history of the war." His newspaper followed with an editorial chastising the AP for initially boasting of a historic "news beat."
"If it was a `beat,'" the Times wrote in its usual tone of moral superiority, "it was one only because Mr. Kennedy's sixteen colleagues chose to stand by their commitments."
Retribution was swift. The military briefly suspended the AP's ability to dispatch any news from the European theater. When that ban was lifted, more than 50 of Kennedy's fellow war correspondents signed a protest letter asking that it be reinstated. The military expelled Kennedy from France.
Condemnation also came from the AP's president at the time, Robert McLean.
"The Associated Press profoundly regrets the distribution on Monday of the report of the total surrender in Europe which investigation now clearly discloses was distributed in advance of authorization by Supreme Allied Headquarters," he said in a public statement on May 10.
The AP's general manager, Kent Cooper, said Kennedy should have conferred with his editors about the decision to publish. Later, he addressed a letter to the reporter saying that he had violated a "cardinal principle" of journalism by breaking a pledge to keep the surrender confidential.
"No employee of the Associated Press has the right to disregard what is defined by the source as a pledge of confidence, when he knows that those who meant to impose it still hold it to be in force," he said.
Other journalists defended Kennedy. In an essay in The New Yorker, published May 19, 1945, under the subhead "The AP Surrender," A.J. Liebling absolved Kennedy of breaking the "pledge" he had supposedly made aboard the aircraft flying to Reims.
"Whether a promise extorted as this one was, in an airplane several thousand feet up, has any moral force is a question for the theologians," Liebling wrote. "I suppose that Kennedy should have refused to promise anything and thus made sure of missing an event that no newspaperman in the world would want to miss, but I can't imagine any correspondent's doing it."
Wes Gallagher, the AP reporter who succeeded Kennedy in Europe and became the general manager in 1962, strongly supported his colleague and believed he had done the right thing.
Upon replacing Kennedy in Paris, Gallagher told the supreme commander of Allied forces, future president Dwight D. Eisenhower, that "If I'd been Kennedy, I'd have done the same thing - except that I'd have telephoned you first," according to an account by the late AP correspondent John Hightower.
After being fired by the AP, Kennedy took a job as managing editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press in California, and then went on to become publisher of the Monterey Peninsula Herald. He died at age 58 after being struck by an automobile.
V-E Day Celebration, Dundee, UK
Kennedy's family had held on to the manuscript for decades before his daughter, Cochran, began looking for a publisher.
She said that even though she was only 16 when her father died, she got the impression he still took great joy in his career, despite the episode.
"Some people said after the war, `Oh, Ed Kennedy is a broken man. He's out there editing some little newspaper in California.' I think people had this idea that he was feeling sorry for himself. But he wasn't. He wasn't the kind of person who sat around and felt sorry."
Curley said Kennedy's daughter approached him around the same time he had become interested in the matter while helping with work on the book "Breaking News: How The Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else." The publication of Kennedy's memoir prompted the AP's apology, Curley said.
He called Kennedy's dismissal "a great, great tragedy" and hailed him and the desk editors who put the surrender story on the wire for upholding the highest principles of journalism.
"They did the right thing," Curley said.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.


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Azumi lives in a cement house with a calamine roof in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She lives with her parents and two older sisters. Azumi is currently in grade five and mathematics and language arts are her favourite subjects. This active girl enjoys playing soccer, reading, and drawing. She dreams of becoming a pilot some day! Her mother takes care of her family while her father works as a labourer, their humble income is insufficient to cover their family expenses. Sponsorship enables children to attend class every day and have the supplies they need to complete their education, grow up healthy, and achieve their dreams.
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Chalice has been serving children and seniors in Bolivia since 2004 in 7 sites, both in rural and urban communities. Our local partners tell us that Chalice is unique in the regions we serve because we dedicate more resources to supporting families at every level.
Children in Bolivia are vulnerable to discrimination towards indigenous populations and languages. Families face high rates of unemployment and/or under-salaried jobs. In the communities where Chalice works, there is very poor access to public services such as water, electricity, and transportation.
Through the support of sponsors and donors, Chalice and our local partners focus on:
- Education – Bolivia sees high rates of children dropping out of school to find work. Chalice places emphasis on after-school support programming to keep children in school.
- Nutrition – our partners ensure children have balanced, nutrient-rich diets by implementing school feeding programs through the support of the Chalice Nutrition Program.
- Inclusion of marginalized communities – Parents and seniors involved in family circles benefit equally from the sponsorship program's funding, capacity building, and opportunities.
Our sites in Bolivia:
Amanecer – Chalice has partnered with Amanecer Foundation in the city of Cochabamba since 2004. The site is directed by Sister Nora Prieto. Amanecer site supports children, adolescents, women and babies, who have been mistreated, abandoned, and live on the streets. Most children live in one of five different homes for at-risk children, while the remainder live with their families. The children at the Amanecer Homes help in the vegetable gardens and orchards. The Chalice Nutrition Program supports them with nutritious foods at the schools and homes.
Asociacion de Sindrome de Down Cochabamba (ASDC) - ASDC is a support centre for children, youth, and young adults with Down syndrome directed by Roxana Céspedes in the city of Cochabamba. In addition to sponsorship, the site provides physiotherapy, rehabilitation, vision, speech, and music therapy for the children. It also offers psychological support for the children and their families, and an employment program for adults with Down syndrome.
Fatima - Chalice has partnered with Our Lady of Fatima Parish in the city of Cochabamba since 2010. The site is directed by Fr. Jesús Osorno and oversees both sponsored children and seniors. The parish is located in District Nine, which is the largest, most populated, poorest, and most violent district in this city. In addition to sponsorship, the site provides special programming for seniors, four soup kitchens, and an after-school support program. The Chalice Nutrition Program supports them with nutritious foods at the schools and homes.
Guadalupe –While the Guadalupe site has been operating in the communities of Huayllani and 23 de Marzo in La Paz since 2009, the Levantate Mujer Foundation assumed its management under the leadership of site director, Sandra Rollano, in 2019. Despite the fact that the communities are within the city limits of La Paz, inhabitants of these communities face extreme poverty and isolation from the services and economic activities of the city. In addition to sponsorship, the site provides workshops on hygiene, disease prevention, nutrition, community leadership, and domestic violence.
Levantate-Mujer – Chalice has partnered with the Levántate Mujer ("Women Rise") Foundation in the city of Sucre since 2012. The site is directed by Sister Sandra Mejia and the Congregation of the Good Shepherd Sisters. In addition to sponsorship, the site offers tutoring services and programs for children around health, basic hygiene and nutrition, and the children receive small personal hygiene kits. The site provides families with education and training in human and child rights advocacy and finance. There are support programs for families affected or infected by HIV/AIDS, survivors of human trafficking and sexual and domestic violence.
PENNT - Chalice has partnered with the Fundación Arquidiocesana Creando Oportunidades (FACO) in the city of Cochabamba since 2006. Directed by José Luis Beltrán, PENNT spans four locations, placing special attention on encouraging children who would otherwise drop of school to find work to support their families, to remain in school. With this goal, the site provides an after school and daily meal program, and runs four soup kitchens. Site staff also offers workshops on health, hygiene, and family and community issues.
Yapacani - Chalice has partnered with the Salesian congregation of the rural town of Yapacani since 2004. Site Director Padre Arturo Bergamasco oversees sponsorship of children across 18 rural communities who have access only to a few grades of primary school. The site runs a dormitory in the town, where the older youth are able to finish their secondary education and learn technical trades. The site also works with seniors who live in impoverished conditions and runs a community centre and soup kitchen for the seniors. The Chalice Nutrition Program supports them with nutritious foods for their meal programs. The site offers workshops for families on topics of health and livelihood skills-building.


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Piers Morgan -- Kelsey Grammer's BANNED From My Show
Piers Morgan Kelsey Grammer's BANNED From My Show
Move over Madonna ... Piers Morgan tells TMZ, he's got a new enemy ... Kelsey Grammer ... who's now officially BANNED from Morgan's show after walking off the set last week.
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New book distills essential physics for next president
BERKELEY – In the event of a standoff between the United States and Iran over uranium enrichment, would Barack Obama, if elected president, know enough about the physics of nuclear weapons to assess the threat?
In leading the nation toward reduced greenhouse gas emissions, would John McCain as president understand which technologies would best decrease America's carbon footprint?
Video versions of Richard Muller's popular Physics 10 class are available on both YouTube and UC Berkeley's Webcast site
Muller on teaching physics: Instructing non-scientists in Berkeley, in the White House and around the world
The book provides the scientific literacy would-be leaders need to challenge ill-informed, partisan advice on science-based issues such as terrorist threats, global warming, the value of manned exploration of space and the dangers of nuclear weapons. With book in hand, candidates and presidents will be able to publicly explain and defend their decisions rather than defer to their science advisors.
"It's hard to think of an issue these days that doesn't have a science or high tech angle to it," said Muller, a professor in UC Berkeley's physics department for 30 years and an experimental physicist and astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "My real goal is to make the dialogue more based in knowledge and fact, because I think that will cool down the rhetoric and help bring opposite sides of the political spectrum together to reach agreement."
A big reason such a book is needed is the current lack of scientists at the highest level of government to advise the president, said Muller, a former MacArthur "genius" Award winner who for 34 years was a member of the Jasons, a group of top-level scientists who advise the U.S. departments of defense and energy as well as NASA on technological issues.
"There used to be a science advisory committee that was in constant contact with the president and was expected to think through technology and make suggestions," Muller said. "There is nothing like that anymore."
The need for such advice was demonstrated in 2003, said Muller, when President George W. Bush touted a future hydrogen economy in his State of the Union address, despite the fact that there are many problems with the use of hydrogen as a transportation fuel.
"There was nobody there to stop him and say, "No, this isn't going to work,'" Muller said. "I doubt that he knew, for example, that hydrogen is currently made from fossil fuels in a process that emits greenhouse gases, or that liquid hydrogen contains only a quarter the energy of gasoline per gallon, severely limiting an auto's range."
A year later in Bush's State of the Union message, there was no mention of the hydrogen economy, said Muller, who suspects that the president learned some physics in the interim.
Muller's book, officially published Aug. 4, is an outgrowth of a popular UC Berkeley class by the same name taught by Muller since 2000 that has achieved fame through freely-available Webcasts. One Iraq war soldier called it a "lifeline" during his deployment in Iraq, saying that the course teaches "the basics needed to be an informed, critical-thinking citizen of our country." In a poll taken last semester by the Daily Californian, UC Berkeley's student newspaper, Muller's class was voted "Best of Berkeley." Muller has received e-mail from people in 48 states and 84 countries thanking him for the Webcasts.
Despite a class enrollment of 500 students per semester - the maximum the lecture hall can hold - and many online followers, Muller decided he wanted an even larger audience. Hence, a textbook - currently used at 10 other universities - and now a book for the general public that covers the physics behind major issues facing the country today: terrorism, nuclear power and nuclear bombs, energy and global warming, and space.
Muller's book dispels many myths and gathers facts that even many physics professors find surprising.
"A lot of people base their opinions on the equivalent of urban legends: stories that are so powerful that you assume they are incontrovertible, but which may not actually be true," Muller said.
Among these legends is that of the danger of radioactivity at even small doses. Muller said an irrational fear of radioactivity interferes with discussion of nuclear power as an alternative to other, more polluting sources of power, including coal.
"People are afraid of radioactivity because it is invisible and unknown," he said. "But that doesn't mean that we can't detect and work with it. Part of this wariness is that people don't trust the government when it says, 'Don't worry.' Well, they don't have to trust the government - they can actually learn what levels of radioactivity are and what they cause and make their own judgment."
Muller emphasized that the facts he presents in the book are not meant to change people's minds but, rather, provide background for making decisions. "Policy," he said, "is outside the purview of physics - but policy should be based on facts and understanding.
"When I teach my class, I say, 'I don't care if you are pro- or anti-nuke, you're going to learn about nukes. Maybe your opinion will be strengthened; if so, you will have a way of defending your opinion that is far more powerful than just stating it. Maybe your opinion will change. I don't know, and that is not my role. My role is to give you the facts. Once you understand the facts, your opinion is as good as anyone else's - and maybe better.'"
Muller's "refuge in the facts" runs counter to the attitude of some scientists today, he said. For example, while the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) wrote an objective report on the perils of global warming, "many who describe the report, even members of the panel, when speaking as individuals, put spin on their description that is not in the report."
This includes co-prizewinner Al Gore, who exaggerates many of the panel's findings and implies in his book and movie that his opinions are actually the IPCC consensus, said Muller, who has credentials of his own as author of a respected technical book on climate change in Earth's history. Many climate scientists have remained silent about these misleading statements, hoping that the exaggerations stimulate public interest. Muller acknowledges this benefit, but feels that there is a core of intelligent readers that deserve to know the whole truth. That includes anyone running for office.
Widespread acceptance of the exaggerations has led, for example, to the belief that the United States is the main culprit in global warming. In fact, said Muller, the IPCC climate models attribute only one-fifth of a degree Fahrenheit of global warming to the United States - a quarter of the total 0.8°F warming estimated to have occurred over the past 50 years. While the U.S. contribution is far more than that of any other country and disproportionate with the rest of the world, if the nation continues at its current rate of emissions, it will be responsible for another 0.2 degrees of warming in the next few decades, whereas the emerging economies of China, India and Russia combined could contribute 4 to 5 degrees of warming, he said. Thus, whatever the United States does to limit carbon emissions could quickly be negated by actions in the developing world. China, in particular, might choose not to slow economic growth - and carbon emissions - until its people reach the same level of wealth as people in the United States.
"In the end, the issues go beyond physics, but we need to recognize that many measures we institute in the United States to deal with global warming can be classified as feel-good measures or setting-the-example measures," he said. "We have to ask ourselves which example the developing world will follow - our example of reducing carbon emissions or our example of generating enormous wealth."
Muller's efforts to present just the facts often earn him attacks from both sides of a debate, with each claiming he is on the other's side. One of his proudest moments came after a semester of discussion of nuclear bombs and terrorism and global warming, when a student asked him what his politics were.
"Just in asking the question, he gave me a great compliment," Muller said, noting that he refused to divulge his voting preferences. "Science should be nonpartisan, and that's how I try teach it."
Muller is unsure whether either presidential candidate has seen his book, but he has already gotten it into the hands of some of the candidates' senior advisors. His goal is not to turn the candidates into physicists, but to give them the knowledge they need to make more informed decisions, and to be better able to defend those decisions to the public.
"The book was really written for two people," he said, "though, ultimately, just for one. I just don't know which one."


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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The Israeli-occupied West Bank seethed with fury Monday as a Palestinian who allegedly died under torture in an Israeli prison was buried. The tensions heightened fears of a third violent Palestinian uprising and harming flickering hopes long-stalled peace talks might resume.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians attended the military-style funeral of Arafat Jaradat amid gunfire and nationalist songs outside the southern West Bank city of Hebron, his hometown.
Jaradat's death Saturday in disputed circumstances in prison at Megiddo, the biblical Armageddon near Haifa, sparked riots across the West Bank over the weekend.
More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in Meggido went on hunger strike and refused food for the second day Monday.
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"We're sitting on a barrel of dynamite," warned Kadoura Fares, a former minister in the Palestinian Administration and head of the Palestinian prisoners association. "It may very well be that Jaradat's death will turn out to have been the match that lit it."
Jaradat, a 30-year-old Hebronite, was arrested Feb. 18 for allegedly throwing stones and fire bombs at Israeli settlers and soldiers during a confrontation in the flashpoint city, where the presence of several hundred Jews living in a heavily guarded compound has long fueled unrest.
Israeli officials say he died of a heart attack during an interrogation. PA Minister for Prisoners Issa Qaraqea said Jaradat died as a result of torture.
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Two of Jaradat's ribs had been fractured, he said.
Israel put its military and security forces on alert. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who's having difficult stitching together a coalition following Jan. 22 elections, held "security consultations."
But the only sign the Israelis were seeking to defuse the swelling crisis was an apparent effort to persuade the Palestinian leadership to intervene by pledging to release some $100 million in tax revenues from the West Bank.
The Israelis unilaterally blocked payment in January as a punishment for the Palestinians securing the United Nations' de facto recognition of Palestinian statehood in November, despite Israel's intense efforts to block that.
Under the circumstances, it's unlikely that the PA under President Mahmoud Abbas, who Netanyahu has declared was "no peace partner," would respond, even though he badly needs the money to pay public sector salaries.
Jaradat's death behind bars has, if nothing else, concentrated attention on the plight of some 4,700 Palestinians held by Israel. Some are held on specific charges of attacking Israelis, but most are under Israeli "administrative detention," without charge or trial, which allows them to be held indefinitely.
Many have been on hunger strike for several weeks, after having participated in earlier hunger strikes demanding better conditions, an end to solitary confinement and access to lawyers.
The Israelis have avoided any deaths by prisoners with a series of concessions, mainly sentencing hunger strikers to token prison terms after which they must be released.
But if any hunger striker dies, the Israelis face an avalanche of trouble by Palestinians who see the prison protesters as heroes in the struggle for a Palestinian state and an end to Israel's 46-year occupation.
All of this is taking place in advance of U.S. President Barack Obama's scheduled visit to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan next month.
Given Obama's strained relations with Netanyahu, primarily over the hawkish Israeli leader's refusal to get peace talks going again, and ordering Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank, the visit could be a fraught one.
"You see things are growing and getting bigger and bigger," cautioned Sharwan Jabarin, head of the Palestinians' Al-Haq human rights organization. "The real concern is to have another Jaradat die in prison."
The Palestinians have staged two uprisings against Israeli occupation.
In 1987-93, hundreds of Palestinians were killed. In the second, in 2000-04, Israel was battered by repeated suicide bombings. Around 1,000 Israelis were killed, along with 4,500 Palestinians, and tens of thousands imprisoned.


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Simulate mode is for producing an animation of some model who's picture
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- module Graphics.Gloss.Data.Display
- module Graphics.Gloss.Data.Picture
- module Graphics.Gloss.Data.Color
- simulate :: forall model. Display -> Color -> Int -> model -> (model -> Picture) -> (ViewPort -> Float -> model -> model) -> IO ()
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Display mode.
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Background color.
|-> Int
Number of simulation steps to take for each second of real time.
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The initial model.
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A function to convert the model to a picture.
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A function to step the model one iteration. It is passed the current viewport and the amount of time for this simulation step (in seconds).
Run a finite-time-step simulation in a window. You decide how the model is represented, how to convert the model to a picture, and how to advance the model for each unit of time. This function does the rest.
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fetch -- retrieve a file by Uniform Resource Locator
fetch [-146AFMPRUadlmnpqrsv] [-B bytes] [-S bytes] [-T seconds] [-N file]
[-o file] [-w seconds] [-h host] [-c dir] [-f file] [URL ...]
The fetch utility provides a command-line interface to the fetch(3)
library. Its purpose is to retrieve the file(s) pointed to by the URL(s)
on the command line.
The following options are available:
-1 Stop and return exit code 0 at the first successfully
retrieved file.
-4 Forces fetch to use IPv4 addresses only.
-6 Forces fetch to use IPv6 addresses only.
-A Do not automatically follow ``temporary'' (302) redirects.
Some broken Web sites will return a redirect instead of a
not-found error when the requested object does not exist.
-a Automatically retry the transfer upon soft failures.
-B bytes Specify the read buffer size in bytes. The default is 4096
bytes. Attempts to set a buffer size lower than this will be
silently ignored. The number of reads actually performed is
reported at verbosity level two or higher (see the -v flag).
-c dir The file to retrieve is in directory dir on the remote host.
This option is deprecated and is provided for backward compatibility
-d Use a direct connection even if a proxy is configured.
-F In combination with the -r flag, forces a restart even if the
local and remote files have different modification times.
Implies -R.
-f file The file to retrieve is named file on the remote host. This
option is deprecated and is provided for backward compatibility
-h host The file to retrieve is located on the host host. This
option is deprecated and is provided for backward compatibility
-l If the target is a file-scheme URL, make a symbolic link to
the target rather than trying to copy it.
-m Mirror mode: if the file already exists locally and has the
same size and modification time as the remote file, it will
not be fetched. Note that the -m and -r flags are mutually
-N file Use file instead of ~/.netrc to look up login names and passwords
for FTP sites. See ftp(1) for a description of the
file format. This feature is experimental.
-n Don't preserve the modification time of the transferred file.
-o file Set the output file name to file. By default, a ``pathname''
is extracted from the specified URI, and its basename is used
as the name of the output file. A file argument of `-' indicates
that results are to be directed to the standard output.
-p Use passive FTP. This is useful if you are behind a firewall
which blocks incoming connections. Try this flag if fetch
seems to hang when retrieving FTP URLs.
-q Quiet mode.
-R The output files are precious, and should not be deleted
under any circumstances, even if the transfer failed or was
-r Restart a previously interrupted transfer. Note that the -m
and -r flags are mutually exclusive.
-S bytes Require the file size reported by the server to match the
specified value. If it does not, a message is printed and
the file is not fetched. If the server does not support
reporting file sizes, this option is ignored and the file is
fetched unconditionally.
-s Print the size in bytes of each requested file, without
fetching it.
-T seconds Set timeout value to seconds. Overrides the environment
variables FTP_TIMEOUT for FTP transfers or HTTP_TIMEOUT for
HTTP transfers if set.
-U When using passive FTP, allocate the port for the data connection
from the low (default) port range. See ip(4) for
details on how to specify which port range this corresponds
-v Increase verbosity level.
-w seconds When the -a flag is specified, wait this many seconds between
successive retries.
If fetch receives a SIGINFO signal (see the status argument for stty(1)),
the current transfer rate statistics will be written to the standard
error output, in the same format as the standard completion message.
The fetch command returns zero on success, or one on failure. If multiple
URLs are listed on the command line, fetch will attempt to retrieve
them each of them in turn, and return zero only if they were all successfully
FTP_TIMEOUT maximum time, in seconds, to wait before aborting an FTP
HTTP_TIMEOUT maximum time, in seconds, to wait before aborting an HTTP
All environment variables mentioned in the documentation for the fetch(3)
library are supported.
The fetch command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.5. This implementation first
appeared in FreeBSD 4.1.
The original implementation of fetch was done by Jean-Marc Zucconi. It
was extensively re-worked for FreeBSD 2.2 by Garrett Wollman, and later
completely rewritten to use the fetch(3) library by Dag-Erling Smorgrav.
The -b and -t options are no longer supported and will generate warnings.
They were workarounds for bugs in other OSes which this implementation
does not trigger.
One cannot both use the -h, -c and -f options and specify URLs on the
command line.
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