Understandably Mr Trump revelled in the news. Customarily he took to twitter and declared “Wow! Big VICTORY on the Wall. The United States Supreme Court overturns lower court injunction, allows Southern Border Wall to proceed. Big WIN for Border Security and the Rule of Law!” Mr Trump has been insistent ever since his entry into politics that the wall is needed to curb illegal immigration and drug trafficking coming across America’s Southern border from Mexico.

This policy has certainly been a controversial one for Mr Trump and on the 15th of February, he declared a national emergency in a bid to fund the wall without Congress approving it. This decision angered the Democrats who were insistent that Mr Trump had exceeded and abused his Presidential powers. However, the border wall is firmly part of his hard-line immigration policies that are at the centre of his 2020 re-election bid. In total Donald Trump’s administration has also pledged to redirect $6.7 billion that would have gone to the Departments of Defence and Treasury to cover the erection of the wall. This is after Congress failed to provide $5.7 billion of funding demanded by Mr Trump.

Despite this, the Southern Border Communities Coalition who are a group who look to protect the rights of residents living around the border have joined the so-called ‘Sierra Club’ who is an environmental organisation in trying to block the administration’s recent action. The ‘Sierra Club’ has been clear that the wall would be disruptive to the environment and would worsen flooding problems as well as having a negative impact on wildlife.