Fox26: Conservationists among 100+ to sign letter asking Congress to ban Big Bend border wall

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U.S.-Mexico border at the mouth of Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas. Photo by Laiken Jordahl/Center for Biological Diversity.

Fox26: Conservationists among 100+ to sign letter asking Congress to ban Big Bend border wall

About 130 conservation groups, outfitters and rural Texas businesses sent a letter to Congress Thursday asking them to step in to halt efforts to build a border wall in the state’s Big Bend parks.

The letter is the latest action in an ongoing dispute over Customs and Border Protection’s “Smart Wall Map,” which has quietly swapped back and forth on plans for a physical wall in the Texas parks. Questions regarding the government’s plans for such action have resulted in no clear answers so far.

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