The U.S. government said Monday that it won't build President Donald Trump's border wall on the site of a historic cemetery that might have required the exhumation of graves
In a statement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it would"avoid" the Eli Jackson Cemetery in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley while"still meeting Border Patrol's operational requirements for border wall."
CBP issued the statement in response to an Associated Press story about the cemetery, one of two 19th century burial sites established by the sons of Nathaniel Jackson, who settled along the Rio Grande in 1857, nine years after the river became the U.S.-Mexico border following the Mexican American War.
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