Judge refuses to block border wall construction along Tohono O’odham reservation
A federal judge declined to halt steps by the Trump administration to build 62 miles of international border wall on part of the Tohono O’odham reservation in Arizona.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge refused on Friday to block the Trump administration from taking steps to build 62 miles of international border wall along part of a Native American tribe’s reservation without its consent.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C., denied the Tohono O’odham Nation’s request for a court-ordered halt to border wall construction on its 2.8-million-acre reservation. Leon ruled the tribe hasn’t established that a border wall will change its reservation boundaries without congressional authority.