Federal Judge Rules Trump Not Free to Shift Funds to Border Wall

The secondary fence of the U.S.-Mexico border is near an area popularly known as "Smuggler's Gulch," in San Diego on July 12, 2017. The Border Patrol added a second layer of concertina wire along the bottom of the fence which helped curtail assaults on agents. Joshua Philipp/The Epoch Times

A federal judge in Texas ruled last week that President Donald Trump’s invocation of the National Emergencies Act to free up funding, mostly from Department of Defense appropriations, to build part of the border wall on the nation’s porous border with Mexico was unlawful.

The Trump administration is expected to appeal the ruling.