Judge Blocks Big Bend Wall

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building border wall projects in Texas’s Big Bend region, including Big Bend National Park. She said the plaintiffs were likely to win at least one claim and faced irreparable harm without an injunction. The case challenges Department of Homeland Security waivers that suspended environmental and historic protections to speed work across a roughly 500-mile border sector. Opponents argued the remote terrain already deters illegal crossings and that the waivers bypassed the law. Supporters called the order a total victory. It bars ground-disturbing work unless officials follow the laws DHS tried to waive. DHS and Customs and Border Protection did not immediately comment.