President Donald Trump on Friday won a case in a federal appeals court, allowing his administration to move $3.6 billion military funds for the construction of the border wall along the Mexican border.
The Trump administration's diversion of military funds to construct additional barriers to the United States-Mexico border wall was "unlawful," ruled a federal appeals court on Friday.
The COVID-19 pandemic has paused many legal proceedings in the United States, however, court actions filed by the U.S. government to survey and take private land in Texas for the border wall has accelerated.
The United States banned all forms of cross-border travel coming in from other countries through extended powers. Migrants seeking asylum and travelers remained at the border waiting for a hearing at court to be let into the U.S. as coronavirus cases rose from both sides.
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CREDIT: MATT CLARK / DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE
Amidst increased tensions over the US-Mexico border, a multinational group of over 2500 scientists have endorsed an article cautioning that a hardened barrier may produce devastating ecological effects while hampering binational conservation efforts.
