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SCOTUS allows Trump admin to temporarily resume border construction in Texas' Big Bend

Ruling said law enacted by Congress reflects preference for border control over environmental and recreational harm The US supreme court has allowed Donald Trump to continue his administration’s construction of a border wall in Texas’s Big Bend region, including parts of Big Bend national park.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 5 sources•1 min read•Updated November 9, 2026, 11:48 PM UTC
Key points
  • The Trump administration filed an emergency relief request with the high court earlier in October asking for the construction to continue while a lawsuit over the plan moves forward.
  • Lawsuit had sought to block border wall construction in national park by targeting waivers that sidestep protections.
  • President Donald Trump has long touted border wall expansion as a signature initiative of his strategy to seal the southern border and crack down on illegal immigration.

Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume border wall construction in West Texas, granting an emergency request from the federal government to lift a lower court's hold on the project.

Additional details
  • In an unsigned, five-page ruling, the nation’s highest court granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to suspend a lower court order that had temporarily stopped the project last month.
  • MULLIN TELLS CONGRESS PRIMARY BORDER WALL WILL BE DONE BY JUNE 2027, SECONDARY WALL BY SUMMER 2028 Administration officials have argued the wall is vital to stopping cartel operations active south of the border and curbing the smuggling of large quantities of illicit drugs into the U.S.
  • The justices' ruling stays a preliminary injunction issued last month by a federal district judge in El Paso, who had temporarily halted border wall construction in the region designated by U.
  • Customs and Border Protection as the Big Bend Sector while litigation proceeds.
  • Most of the proposed construction in the Big Bend Sector will take place on privately owned land, according to administration officials.

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