At the Trump Administration’s Request, a Federal Judge Has Stopped a Private Border Wall in Texas

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Texas Monthly by Carlos Sanchez 12/5/2019

At the Trump Administration’s Request, a Federal Judge Has Stopped a Private Border Wall in South Texas

For the second time in a week, the pro-Trump group has been told to stand down.

At the request of the Trump administration, a federal judge ordered a halt to the construction of a private border wall in South Texas on Thursday. Ruling that the federal government will likely prevail in its lawsuit against the wall’s Trump-supporting backers, U.S. district judge Randy Crane instructed We Build the Wall and its contractor, Fisher Industries, to immediately stop work on a three-and-a-half-mile segment of wall along the banks of the Rio Grande near Mission in the Rio Grande Valley.

The injunction comes in response to an eleven-page lawsuit filed on behalf of the International Boundary and Water Commission, the binational agency that oversees the Rio Grande. The lawsuit states that We Build the Wall and Fisher haven’t submitted complete hydraulic studies proving that the wall wouldn’t worsen flooding on the river, violating international treaty obligations with Mexico.

“The documents submitted contained very little substance and failed to show the extent of any hydraulic testing that may have been conducted by WBTW or Fisher Industries,” the lawsuit said. “This documentation provided scant detail about the planned work on the bank of the Rio Grande.”

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