Trump admin survives environmental 🌍 laws to construct wall

Trump administration announced 🔊, that it will waive environmental 🌍 and other laws and regulations that would impede 🚫 the first phase of construction of a wall along the 🇺🇸 US-Mexico 🇲🇽 border.

The Department of Homeland Security decision clears an important hurdle 🚧 to construction of the wall, and signals 👉 an approach the administration could take in the future when it seeks to build additional sections of wall or fence.

The waiver applies to "a variety of environmental 🌍, natural resource 🌄, and land management laws" in the San Diego sector, one of the most-crossed regions of the border and the site where border wall prototypes are scheduled 📋 to be constructed later this year.

The 15-mile stretch identified in the waiver also includes 14 miles of replacement secondary fencing, for which Customs and Border Protection has requested funding from Congress.

Despite the waiver, construction will not begin for at least several more months because federal officials are currently reviewing a protest by a company that competed for, but was not awarded 🏆, a building contract.