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Supreme Court allows border wall in Big Bend

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U.S. Supreme Court justices are allowing the Trump administration to continue building a section of border wall in a remote part of Texas that includes Big Bend National Park.

The plan involves barriers and surveillance equipment along a 500-mile stretch of the U.S. border with Mexico.

Environmental groups and locals had challenged the construction, saying it would damage the natural area and historic sites. But the high court decided to lift a halt on the work placed by a federal judge as a lower court battle plays out.

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