Originally posted May 12, 2026 at Our Public Lands and Waters
After severe and sustained bipartisan blowback—including from all Big Bend border sheriffs, all Texas border county judges, and countless furious locals—it appears that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has stepped away from its plans to build a 30-foot-high border wall through Big Bend National Park.
In a May 4 article in the Washington Examiner, CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott, who’s the administration’s top border official, said that “Big Bend National Park has some just, like, unbelievably huge granite cliffs. It would be kind of silly to put like a 30-foot border wall on top of a 90-foot granite cliff.”
“So what we’re trying to convey is that we are going to have meaningful border security in that entire area,” he said.
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