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June 6, 2025

Trump Administration Waives Environmental Laws to Speed Border Wall Construction
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has signed waivers to speed
construction of 36 miles of new border wall in Arizona and New Mexico.
In a statement, the department said Noem was exercising her authority to
waive environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy
Act.

Meanwhile, a Peruvian woman who was detained by U.S. Army soldiers and
arrested by a Border Patrol agent in West Texas on May 12 has been
acquitted of illegally entering a national defense area. Adely Vanessa
De La Cruz-Alvarez already faces deportation, but could have received a
prison term of up to 18 months for entering the narrow strip of land
along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Trump recently transferred
to the military. 


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