Originally posted June 19, 2026
In a letter sent to Secretary of Department of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin on June 16, Congressional Democrats expressed strong opposition to the agency’s recent decision to issue waivers of numerous federal environmental and historic preservation laws inside Big Bend National Park in order to make way for the construction of a border wall within park boundaries.
In issuing the waivers, DHS accompanied the decision with a six-page statement noting that the waiver of the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, National Park Service Organic Act, the Clean Water Act, the Historic Preservation Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, the Paleontological Resources Protection Act, the Federal Caves Protection Act, and a slew of other environmental laws was needed “in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads in the vicinity of the international land border in the state of Texas.”
Read the full article at National Parks Traveler.
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