As Trump Seeks Billions For Wall, US Still Paying For Fence

HOUSTON (AP) — Before the wall, there was the fence. And the U.S. is still paying for it.
As President Donald Trump tries to persuade a skeptical Congress to fund his proposed multibillion-dollar wall on the Mexican border, government lawyers are still settling claims with Texas landowners over a border fence approved more than a decade ago. Two settlements were completed just this week.
The legal battles over a stop-and-start fence that covers just a portion of the border have outlasted t