Judge Rules Private Texas Company’s Planned Border Wall Can Proceed

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According to Fox News,  “a federal judge lifted a temporary restraining order against a project to build a privately funded border wall next to the Rio Grande.” The judge also denied a separate request for a restraining order in a separate lawsuit filed by the National Butterfly Center against the builders.

Fisher Industries, a construction firm based in North Dakota, is funding the project which is estimated to cost about $42 million.

KTSM-9 TV reported that U.S. District Judge Randy Crane in McAllen, a southern Texas city, ruled that the federal government failed to show that building the 18-foot-tall bollard fence made of galvanized steel so close to the river would shift the course of the river and border itself and imperil a 1970 international water treatywith Mexico.

Dating back to the Secure Fence Act of 2006, the U.S. largely avoided building right next to the Rio Grande.