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WASHINGTON (AP) — A small Texas town is challenging the Trump administration's border wall plans, arguing they could cause flooding and bypass legal processes. The Department of Homeland Security is pushing a $46 billion plan to complete the wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. But it is facing opposition from landowners, environmental groups, and Native American tribes.
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The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas spoke out against the Trump administration’s Big Bend area border wall plans this week while campaigning in West Texas, calling the wall a "monument to corruption.” -
A recent lawsuit claims border agencies violated the federal Rivers and Harbors Act as part of the Trump administration’s plan for a border wall through the Big Bend region. The Department of Homeland Security responded by waiving that law, so it doesn’t have to follow it.
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