Wire reporting: (AP, via Local 10)

The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal district-court injunction that had stopped Trump administration construction of a border wall and related infrastructure in Texas's Big Bend region, allowing work to resume while the lawsuit continues^2,3.

The unsigned order granted emergency relief the Justice Department sought last month after U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone of Texas halted construction-related activity in the sector, which includes Big Bend National Park and adjoining state and private land along the Rio Grande^2,3.

CBS News reported that the court said the injunction delayed barrier and road construction and impeded the government's asserted interests in border security². Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she would have denied the request².

The ruling is a lift of the stay, not a decision on the merits of the underlying challenge^2,3. The Associated Press, via Local 10, said the high court's action lets construction continue while the case plays out³.

Cardone had found that Congress likely had not clearly authorized sweeping environmental waivers for an area with the southern border's lowest rate of migrant apprehensions, according to the AP account³. CBS News said she concluded the Homeland Security secretary exceeded waiver authority when issuing those waivers².

The administration has argued there are illegal crossings and drug seizures in Big Bend and that a gap in barriers could draw more traffic there, and that federal law sharply limits court challenges to construction waivers³. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the justices that stopping work would disrupt efforts to secure a large stretch of the southern border, CBS News reported².

Opponents, described by CBS News as an environmental nonprofit, a professional riverboat guide and a religious organization, say roads and 30-foot barriers would permanently change parks and river corridor land². Local bipartisan critics, in the AP account, have called the project a poor use of money in an area of historically low illegal immigration and have favored surveillance such as drones³.

Republicans in Congress last summer funded broader wall construction, and Customs and Border Protection has been building barriers along the southwest border under those waivers, the AP report said³. What remains is the district-court case over whether the Big Bend waivers were lawful; the Supreme Court did not resolve that question^2,3.