VIEW LARGER Border fence construction projects funded by $3.6 billion pulled from military projects can go forward after the Trump administration won a case in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Michel Marizco/Fronteras Desk
The Trump administration vowed to continue work on various stretches of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday after a ruling in its favor by an appeals court freed up construction money.
A lower court had stopped construction on 175 miles of the southwest border in areas along all four border states.
The U.S. government sought to use $3.6 billion from more than 100 military construction projects to pay for the buildup.
The 5th Circuit of Appeals cited an earlier ruling last summer by the U.S. Supreme Court lifting a similar injunction that hindered the project.
In Arizona, the funding will go toward construction of new barricades around Yuma.
Fronteras Desk is a KJZZ project covering important stories in an expanse stretching from Northern Arizona deep into northwestern Mexico.
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