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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to allow it to resume construction of a border wall and security infrastructure in a remote area of Texas, which includes Big Bend National Park.
The Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court justices to lift an injunction issued by a lower court to prevent the administration from erecting a barrier in Big Bend, in a territory that spans about 800 kilometers of the border with Mexico.
In their petition, prosecutors described the injunction issued by a Texas court as an "obstacle" to the government's obligation to protect a quarter of the border against irregular incursions by immigrants and drug traffickers.
The $1.7 billion project, which has generated divided opinions, includes a road, as well as cameras, sensors, and vehicle barriers.
Big Bend National Park consists of more than 324,000 hectares of protected land along the border with Mexico, which is home to threatened animal species and features archaeological sites and iconic landscapes.
The plaintiff conservation organizations filed their case in April, alleging that the Trump administration had violated the Constitution by exempting the works from complying with dozens of laws to accelerate the construction of border barriers.
In early 2026, then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem determined that the administration did not have to comply with dozens of laws, mostly environmental, because there was an "acute and immediate need" to accelerate the project to combat illegal migrant entry and drug trafficking.
The construction of the border wall is one of the priorities of Trump's immigration policy, which in January 2025, upon returning to the White House, ordered the strengthening of security on the southern border through physical barriers and other control infrastructure.
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