The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the Trump administration to resume building border barriers and roads across the Big Bend region of West Texas, including inside Big Bend National Park, while the lawsuit against the project is still undecided.
In an unsigned order, the justices lifted the injunction that U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone issued on October 2. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only justice who would have denied the request. The court said the government is exceedingly likely to prevail, and that the 1996 immigration law allows challenges to the secretary’s waivers only when they claim a violation of the Constitution. “There is no such thing as a ‘constitutional’ major-questions claim,” the court wrote.
Homeland Security Secretaries Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullin issued three waivers in February, May and July 2026, setting aside dozens of laws including the Endangered Species Act so barriers and roads could be built quickly. The Big Bend Sector covers 517 miles of the Rio Grande, more than a quarter of the whole southern border. Border Patrol says the halt cost nearly $500,000 a day in unrecoverable money. Construction can now restart while the case continues.
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Sources: U.S. Supreme Court; Reuters; Associated Press. Video: Zark News.
