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Judge Clears $46 B Border Wall Through Presidio Levees

8/3/2026

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Judge Reggie B. Walton allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to proceed with a $46 billion border wall through Presidio, Texas’s levee system, rejecting the town’s flooding claim.
Customs and Border Protection will replace the earthen slope with a concrete wall topped by 30-foot steel bollard panels.
An environmental group and a church preservation group filed a separate Texas lawsuit opposing the wall.

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Judge Reggie B. Walton allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to proceed with a $46 billion border wall through Presidio, Texas’s levee system, rejecting the town’s flooding claim.
Customs and Border Protection will replace the earthen slope with a concrete wall topped by 30-foot steel bollard panels.
An environmental group and a church preservation group filed a separate Texas lawsuit opposing the wall.