Trump team discussing border wall with Army Corps, Interior Department

Article author: 
Rene Marsh
Article publisher: 
CNN
Article date: 
13 January 2017
Article category: 
National News
Tags: 
border
DHS
ICE
national security
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President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is engaged in active discussions with the US Army Corps of Engineers and Interior Department to begin planning a wall along the Mexican border, including how specific environmental laws could get in the way, CNN has learned ...

Another US official told CNN the Trump transition team has also reached out to the Army Corps of Engineers' Southwest Division ...

The moves by the transition team, including previously reported questions to the Department of Homeland Security, show how seriously Trump is taking his promise to build a massive physical barrier between the US and Mexico. The idea energized backers at this rallies but was dismissed by opponents as expensive and unfeasible ...

There are local, state and federal laws on the books that would protect endangered species and air and water quality. But one environmental law expert says what the Trump transition team could end up using language in the REAL ID Act that Congress passed in 2005. The law includes a provision that allows the secretary of Homeland Security the power to waive all local, state and federal laws that the secretary determines is an obstacle to building walls and roads along US borders ...

In 2008 Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff invoked that power to waive environmental laws to construct barriers along portions of the southern border ...
 

 

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