Texas attorney general says Biden must continue border wall construction after court deadline passes

The border wall in a remote part of southern New Mexico. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office said the federal government must resume wall construction after it failed to appeal a judge's decision in a Texas lawsuit. (Credit: Justin Hamel for The Texas Tribune)

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After the expiration of a deadline to appeal a court ruling, the Biden administration must continue building a border wall using roughly $1.4 billion Congress allocated for a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border that the administration had tried to redirect, the Texas Attorney General’s office said Thursday.