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Supreme Court rejects request to hear environmental challenge to Trump’s border wall construction

By Melissa Quinn

Published December 3, 2018 5:15pm ET

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Supreme Court rejects request to hear environmental challenge to Trump’s border wall construction — Honduran migrants who traveled through Mexico as part of a caravan of thousands of Central Americans practice scaling the U.S. border wall, in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. Authorities and residents in Tijuana are concerned that some of the more than 6,000 Central American migrants being asked to move from a shelter within sight of the U.S. border to one further out might try to make a mass rush across the border. | (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request from a trio of conservation and environmental groups seeking to block construction of President Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The justices declined to consider the groups’ appeal of a lower court ruling that paved the way for the federal government to begin replacing border fencing in two locations and building wall prototypes.

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