A lawsuit brought about by various environmental groups against President Trump's border wall has been officially shot down by the Supreme Court. In a new decision, the Supreme Court agreed with a lower court decision to allow 145 miles of the President's border wall to be built in areas where stubborn states have been challenging the construction.
According to Fox23:
The high court on Monday declined to hear an appeal involving construction of 145 miles (233 kilometers) of steel-bollard walls along the border in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.The Center for Biological Diversity, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Southwest Environmental Center had challenged a federal law that allows the secretary of Homeland Security to waive any laws necessary to allow the quick construction of border fencing. The groups had argued that violates the Constitution's separation of powers. But a lower court dismissed the case.This is not the first time the Supreme Court has weighed in on border wall construction during the Trump administration. Last year, the high court gave the administration the go-ahead to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to replace barriers along the border with Mexico in Arizona, California and New Mexico with more robust fencing.
President Trump and advocates of the wall have repeatedly stated it is effective in keeping out fleeing criminals from entering the country. NCFIRE, a conservative legal immigration advocacy group, has documented hundreds of rapes by illegal aliens in the United States. However, the Cato Institute also showed that, statistically, most legal immigrants do not pose a violent threat to the United States, and that the data on all illegal aliens is murky, proving we cannot assume all illegal aliens are criminals.
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6 Comments
All illegal aliens are criminal. Duh!
ReplyDeleteAll aliens are equal but some aliens are more equal than others.
ReplyDeleteBut it's a pretty good bet that they are criminals due to the statistics. And you can't sort and filter without a wall. So you saying that not all illegals are criminals is meaningless. We have to have a wall or we don't have any sovereignty.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason we need that expensive wall is the government refuses to adequately punish those who illegally enter/remain in this country.
ReplyDeleteThus the need of a wall.....
Delete"we cannot assume all illegal aliens are criminals"
ReplyDeleteYou can't assume everyone who breaks dozens of laws is a criminal? Is it because you have the IQ of a stump?