In a map update posted last month to U.S. Custom and Border Protection’s website, the agency charted a major expansion of the border wall. It included terrain belonging to one of America’s most iconic wild areas, Big Bend National Park, an 800,000-acre desert landscape that includes the entire Chisos mountain range and more than 100 miles of the Rio Grande.
A few steeply cliffed sections, including the famed Santa Elena Canyon, were marked “detection technology.” The rest of the park’s southern border, which touches Mexico, was designated “primary wall border system.”
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