Supreme Court allows Trump wall at Big Bend National Park
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The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the Trump administration to resume building border barriers in West Texas’ Big Bend region, including Big Bend National Park.

The justices lifted a federal judge’s order halting construction while a lawsuit from environmentalists and other challengers proceeds.

The administration says the region is an area of high illegal entry, citing major drug seizures and cartel activity just across the border.

Most construction in the sector, which spans more than 300 miles, will be on private land. The park itself would get a 17-mile noncontiguous vehicle barrier, not the 30-foot pedestrian wall planned elsewhere.

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