“This case involves a baseless injunction that halts a major portion of the construction of the border wall,” U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the emergency application. “Leaving a 300-plus-mile gap in border defenses would act as a dangerous magnet for cartels and other bad actors to exploit as other routes close off.”
The Trump administration argued that continuing construction was crucial because the Big Bend region encompasses nearly one-quarter of the U.S.–Mexico border.
Between fiscal years 2021 and 2025, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended more than 89,000 foreign nationals attempting to enter through the Big Bend sector, according to the emergency application, “and those are just the aliens who were detected.”…