Cyberzenhub.com – A federal judge refuses to block Trump administration efforts to build a border wall across Native American territory. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon issued his decision on Friday, permitting the Trump administration to proceed with constructing 62 miles of international border wall on the Tohono O’odham Nation’s 2.8-million-acre reservation in Arizona. The judge declined to grant a temporary restraining order that would have halted construction activities pending further legal review.

The tribe’s legal challenge focused on whether the wall would fundamentally alter reservation boundaries without congressional approval. Leon determined that the Tohono O’odham Nation failed to demonstrate this burden of proof. The judge also dismissed arguments that the wall’s construction would amount to illegal trespassing on sovereign tribal lands.…