At least five lawsuits were filed in the immediate aftermath of President Donald Trump’s February decree based on his claim that the flow of Central American migrants into the U.S. from Mexico warranted the measure, allowing him to line up $8 billion in funding for the barrier. “Such challenges raise
-- The Trump administration asked a Washington federal judge to throw out a pair of lawsuits challenging the president’s national emergency declaration that he said allowed him to tap funding for his long-sought wall along the southern U.S. border.
They’re the administration’s first attempts to dislodge any of the wall cases and the newest battlefronts in the political and legal war between the administration and its opponents over U.S. immigration policy. Litigation spanning the travel ban, funding for sanctuary cities, child separations, Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals and anti-asylum policies have all wound their way through the judicial system, with the government failing to defend most of its initiatives.
These lawsuits are likely the only obstacles left between the president and his wall. Congress passed a bipartisan resolution denouncing Trump’s executive order in March, but then failed to win a super majority to override the president’s veto of that resolution. Three more cases filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, El Paso County and 16 state attorneys general are likely to face similar challenges by the U.S. Justice Department.
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