Supreme Court gave Trump $ 2.5 billion to build wall | Chronic

The United States Supreme Court has authorized the government to Donald Trump to use 2.5 billion dollars, which were awarded to the Pentagon and the Treasury Department, for the construction of part of the border wall. The president intends to raise him at the border with Mexico.

The court voted Friday to lift the freeze on funds that had been decided by a lower court. Four liberal judges opposed the measure, which voted by 5 votes to 4.

A court of first instance froze the funds last May and a court of appeal upheld the measure this month. The freezing of these funds had prevented the government from using Defense Department funds to replace the existing sections of the border wall in the states of Arizona, California and New Mexico by more robust fences.

According to the EFE agency, this game was originally aimed at fighting drug trafficking and is part of the $ 6.6 billion that Trump diverted from the Pentagon for the construction of the wall.

Due to the declared national emergency at the southern border, the government has reallocated the above-mentioned amount to the wall, which, added to the 1,375 million that Congress approved for the wall in February, should be used for the construction of some 376 kilometers of wall.

"Wow, big win on the wall." US Supreme Court overturns lower court orders, allows wall to cross south border, "Great victory for border security and rule of law!", wrote on his Trump Twitter account, shortly after the publication of the decision.

Until July 26, a lawsuit filed by the American Union for Civil Liberties (ACLU) on behalf of the Sierra Club environmental organization and the Coalition of Communities of the Southern Border had forced the federal courts of California to block the initiative. .