Original article by National Parks Traveler posted March 1, 2026.
With billions of dollars to spend, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection is turning its eyes towards extending a wall of some sort along the United States’ boundary with Mexico that runs through Big Bend National Park and the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River in Texas.
The proposal has outraged local officials and raised questions of what impacts such a project might have on the sprawling park in West Texas. There also is the question of whether the wall is needed.
“What’s not well-known is there’s already considerable detection technology within the national park,” Keep Big Bend Wild’s Bob Krumenaker said on this week’s National Parks Traveler podcast.
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