# SCOTUS allows Trump admin to temporarily resume border construction in Texas’ Big Bend

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/scotus-allows-trump-admin-to-temporarily-resume-border-construction-in-texas-big-bend/
- Published: 2026-11-09T21:01:08+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T21:21:40+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scotus-allows-trump-admin-temporarily-resume-border-construction-texas-big-bend
- Topics: Americas, World

## Key points

- Supreme Court lets Big Bend wall construction resume temporarily.
- A legal challenge over authorisation and environmental rules continues.
- The sector recorded 1.3% of apprehensions in 2025.

## Summary

The US Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to temporarily resume border wall construction in the Big Bend Sector of West Texas while a legal challenge continues. The ruling lifts a lower court’s preliminary halt to the project; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she would have rejected the administration’s request.

Environmental groups and local residents argue the Department of Homeland Security proceeded without congressional authorisation and bypassed environmental rules. The sector spans more than 500 miles, about a quarter of the US–Mexico border, but accounted for 1.3% of border apprehensions in 2025. The administration says construction would curb cartel activity and drug smuggling; most of the proposed route is on private land, and a planned 17-mile barrier in Big Bend National Park will not use the 30-foot steel fencing intended for other areas.

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