JUST IN: US Supreme Court to hear challenge to the Trump admin.’s use of Pentagon money to build the southern border wall and also its appeal of a ruling that blocked the sending of asylum applicants to Mexico while they wait for their cases to be heard.
last year after a fight over his budget that led to a partial government shutdown. It ended after Democrats approved money for border wall construction, but nowhere near what the president wanted.
The Sierra Club said the wall would also cause irreversible environmental damage."Endangered species could disappear from our southern border, while fragile landscapes are decimated by this destructive and pointless vanity project," said Gloria Smith, the group's managing attorney. The government also said that the groups filing the lawsuit had no legal standing to challenge the wall program.
From late January 2019 until the program was suspended because of the Covid pandemic, more than 60,000 people were shuttled back to Mexico under what the government called the Migrant Protection Program.
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