Groups ask judge to halt border wall construction

Source: the hill




By Jacqueline Thomsen and Rachel Frazin - 04/04/19 10:24 PM EDT



Several groups filed a motion Thursday asking a judge to impose a preliminary injunction to halt the Trump administration’s construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border under the scope of President Trump’s national emergency declaration.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the motion in federal court in California, as part of an ongoing lawsuit brought forward on behalf of the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition, challenging Trump’s national emergency declaration.

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The groups claim in the filing that building the wall with funds set aside for other purposes could cause “irreparable damage,” leading to their request for the national injunction.

“Neither a declaration of emergency nor the statutes that Defendants have invoked permit the President to disregard Congress’s enacted appropriations legislation. Nor have Defendants even attempted to comply with the environmental protections Congress required in the National Environmental Policy Act,” the lawsuit reads.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/latino/437512-groups-ask-judge-to-halt-border-wall-construction

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