A 79-mile stretch of new wall in California and Arizona has been put indefinitely on hold
By Gabriela Resto-Montero | Vox
A federal judge has ruled construction on a 79-mile stretch of the wall on the US-Mexico border cannot proceed. The decision came Friday, and permanently stops work on a section of the wall that was meant to span from El Centro, California to Tucson, Arizona.
The ACLU brought the case on behalf of the environmental group Sierra Club and the community organization the Southern Border Communities Coalition. They argued argued that building the wall in these areas would cause harm to “recreational and aesthetic interests” in the region. The desert landscape included in the court decision includes national monuments, reserves and rivers.
The groups also argued — as they did in a successful May challenge to a section of the border wall planned in Arizona and Texas — that the money the Trump administration set aside for the California to Arizona span of wall had been improperly appropriated.
