Originally posted July 9, 2026
You’ve probably heard about the Trump administration’s plans for a border wall through Big Bend. Or its plans not to build a wall at all, but instead to put up a futuristic forcefield of lights and sensors. You may have even heard that public pressure backed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into a corner and they’ve scrapped said plans altogether.
If you’ve been confused by the competing headlines about Texas’ biggest national and state park over the last six months, you’re not alone. Even people like me—one half of the two-person team that broke the story—have been scrambling to keep up.
Back in October, a row of concertina wire appeared what felt like overnight underneath the Presidio International Bridge. Four separate presidential administrations have tossed around the idea of building a border wall through the tiny city of Presidio, the state’s sleepiest vehicle crossing, but the Big Bend’s generally forbidding terrain and lack of action (around 1 percent of total Border Patrol apprehensions sector-wide) have kept these plans confined to the drawing board.
Read the full article at Texas Observer.
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