New mapping from U.S. Customs and Border Protection indicates the agency has returned to planning for a physical border wall in parts of Big Bend National Park in Texas despite strong opposition from local communities.
The map, which appeared on CBP’s website Tuesday, shows four sections of wall or vehicle barriers of some sort “planned” for inside the national park or next to it. What’s unknown is how definitive the map is. In the past CBP has gone back and forth between proposing a physical bollard wall similar to that built in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona or using technology to deter cross-border traffic in Big Bend.
The map also shows an extensive “technology and patrol road” slicing through a wide swath of the national park.
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