All told, Mr. Trump has shifted about $14 billion toward wall building beyond the amount that Congress has approved.
Many lawsuits contesting the wall construction, including another one last year by the same plaintiffs, are still pending. Lower courts have issued injunctions halting the money transfers as likely illegal, but the Supreme Court put those decisions on hold, allowing construction while the cases are being argued more fully in the lower courts.
This week’s new complaint from the environmental groups also challenges acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf’s waivers, issued in March, exempting wall construction from environmental laws.
The groups say a number of rare species might suffer 골목게임바둑이 from wall construction, including the ocelot, the Sonoran pronghorn, the Quino checkerspot butterfly, the coastal California gnatcatcher, and the jaguar.