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Trump’s border chief defends wall plans in Texas’ Big Bend despite a court setback
Rodney Scott said the $46 billion project is justified to stop illegal immigration and smuggling, even as a judge ordered construction halted.
- Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott defended plans for a wall and related infrastructure in Texas’ Big Bend region despite opposition and a court-ordered construction pause.
- The proposed $46 billion project would cover the roughly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border with walls, barriers, roads, and surveillance technology.
- A judge cited possible “serious, irreparable harm” in ordering the pause, while opponents included local groups, landowners, businesses, and environmentalists.
- Scott said protecting the border was “non-negotiable” and warned that leaving Big Bend without fortifications would allow it to be “completely overrun and destroyed.
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Trump’s top border official defended plans to build a wall and other infrastructure in the Big Bend region of Texas, despite growing opposition to the project and a pause in court-ordered construction, claiming that his goal of strengthening the country’s borders “is not negotiable.”
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right2Center1Last UpdatedBias Distribution50% Left
Bias Distribution
- 50% of the sources lean Left
50% Left
L 50%
C 17%
R 33%
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