Federal Judge Clears DHS to Build Border Wall Through Presidio Levees

A view of the Rio Grande in May 2026 in southern Presidio County, Texas, where the Trump administration is seeking to build

A federal judge is allowing the Department of Homeland Security to proceed for now with plans to construct a border wall through a levee system protecting a small Texas town on the border with Mexico. The decision, issued late Sunday by Judge Reggie B. Walton, rejects arguments from the locality that the wall could trigger … Read more