LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- California's Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Wednesday announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration's plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Becerra announced plans for the lawsuit in San Diego, a southern Californian city located on the border.
His cases at the first step focused on halting the construction of wall prototypes in San Diego and the replacement of barriers there and in Calexico, an other border city in Imperial County of California.
According to the 53-page indictment acquired by Xinhua, the defendants of the cases included United States of America, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), former DHS Secretary John Kelly, Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke, the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Acting CBP Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan.
In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, they are charged of violating the U.S. Constitution, failing to comply with federal and state environmental laws, and relying on a federal statute that does not authorize the proposed projects. Enditem
