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Jun 11, 2026 Department of Homeland Security issued a waiver suspending major environmental and historic preservation laws to build border wall infrastructure in Big Bend National Park Tier 1 · Primary Institutions and Governance
An agency invoked emergency-style authority to bypass statutory environmental and cultural protections, expanding executive power to override congressional law through waivers.
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- Department of Homeland Security issues waiver allowing border wall construction in Big Bend National Park — The Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security published a waiver in the Federal Register on June 11, 2026, that suspends enforcement of major environmental and historical preservation laws—including the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, and Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act—to permit Customs and Border Protection to construct border security infrastructure in Big Bend National Park, Texas. The waiver authorizes construction of vehicle barriers, roads, surveillance systems, and potentially 30-foot steel bollard fencing across 17 miles of the park's river frontage and interior, despite the area accounting for less than 0.5% of unauthorized border crossings nationally.
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Week 73 – 2026-06-06–2026-06-12
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