Bulldozers sit idle at border amid legal confusion over Trump's emergency

MISSION, Texas - President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency along the border with Mexico, but here in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, there's little sign of a government springing into action.

Earlier this week, two contractors surveyed a 150-foot-wide, half-mile-long stretch of land that had been cleared of brush so crews could build the first new border barrier of Trump's presidency. But a large excavator nearby sat idle in the dirt.

Half a dozen lawsuits and constraints contained in the spending bill Congress passed earlier this month have combined to throw the planned construction into confusion and doubt.

Officials from Customs and Border Protection, the agency charged with building Trump's border barrier, aren't clear