The Trump administration will waive dozens of environmental laws and regulations to construct new barriers and roads along the nation’s border with Mexico.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued a notice in the Federal Register announcing her agency will target about 10 miles of the nation’s southern border near San Diego.
“There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct additional physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project area,” Noem wrote.
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Noem said she will utilize authorities under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, as well as the Real ID Act of 2005.
