Federal judge issues nationwide block on the Trump administration's use of $3.6 billion military construction funds to build a wall between the border of the U.S. and Mexico, declaring that repurposing those funds would be 'unlawful.'
The injunction blocks funding planned for as much as 175 miles for an “emergency border wall system” in Texas, Arizona and California -- disrupting the administration’s plans to complete 450 miles of new barriers by the end of 2020.
Since President Donald Trump took office, the administration has built just over 86 miles of new barriers. Most of that work has been renovating and replacing out-dated designs, according to Customs and Border Protection.President Donald Trump is shown border wall prototypes in San Diego, Calif., March 13, 2018.Federal authorities have not completed any new barriers along empty stretches of border, although construction is under way in the Rio Grande Valley.
Last July, the Supreme Court handed Trump a big win on the issue by greenlighting $2.5 billion to be used for military counterdrug funding for the border wall temporarily -- a signal that it would ultimately side with the administration on the issue of shifting money around for what Trump says is a"national emergency."
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