Customs and Border Protection has ordered construction crews building Trump’s second border wall to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico after ranchers said pumping the groundwater needed to mix cement could threaten their livestock.

More than a decade after President Donald Trump pledged to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in what became a defining rallying cry of his 2016 presidential campaign, the project is still ongoing,

Ranchers along the U.S.-Mexico border are outraged that the federal government is drilling unpermitted wells to pump water from the region's drought-stricken aquifers.

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A federal judge has ruled that the Department of Homeland Security can proceed with building a border wall through a levee system in a small Texas town

Ranchers win fight as Trump halts border wall water drilling in drought-hit New Mexico - Customs and Border Protection has ordered construction crews building Trump’s second border wall to stop drilli

The Trump administration ordered construction crews to stop drilling industrial wells in New Mexico, currently in the throes of a drought, after local farmers complained it could put them out of business.