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The complaint accuses them of violating the U.S. Constitution, failing to comply with federal and state environmental laws, and resorting to a federal statute that does not authorize the proposed projects.
In the lawsuit filed in the California district court, Becerra outlines the history of the projects -- from John Kelly's move to expedite them before 2009 to the DHS's announcement last week that it intended to carry out a border wall project in Imperial County.
Becerra alleges that Kelly and Duke proposed unlawfully expediting the projects. The argument is that Kelly's authority to waive laws under Section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act Joe Haden Steelers Jersey , which allows the DHS to install additional physical barriers and roads in certain areas to deter illegal crossings, expired in 2008.
Since the DHS did not identify the San Diego or Imperial project areas as "priority areas" before this deadline, using Section 102 is improper and violates several provisions of the constitution, the indictment says.
It also says U.S. President Donald Trump should take responsibility for the illegal constructions.
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It mentions that on Jan. 25, 2017, Trump issued an executive order directing the DHS to "allocate all sources of federal funds for the planning, designing and construction of a physical wall along the southern border."
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