DHS Defends Texas-Mexico Border Wall Waivers In Reply To Stay Application

( November 2, 2026, 1:13 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) contend in an Oct. 30 reply filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of an application to stay a preliminary injunction issued by a Texas federal judge suspending waivers of environmental, historic preservation and other legal requirements for construction of a massive border wall along the Texas-Mexico border that DHS had authority to issue the waivers, that harm arguments were properly preserved and that the injunction could not be defended on a nondelegation claim that was not decided....