Originally posted August 21, 2026
(Translated from French using Google Translate)
Faced with cross-party mobilization, the Trump administration has finally suspended its anti-immigration project at the border with Mexico, in Big Bend National Park, until further notice. Opponents, however, remain ” on their guard .”
In Donald Trump’s America, even national parks are no longer sanctuaries. Despite being hailed as the ” crown jewel ” of American natural heritage, Big Bend was chipped away by the bulldozers and excavators of the federal government in mid-August. In his almost obsessive hunt for migrants on the US-Mexico border, the Mar-a-Lago monarch claimed he wanted to strengthen security along this stretch of the border in the name of national security, without actually erecting his iconic wall. Instead, the Department of Homeland Security planned to install ” new patrol lanes, surveillance devices, and vehicle barriers ” in one of the wildest areas of the Lone Star State .
But citizens and elected officials of differing political persuasions joined forces to defend the park and thus pressured Trump to suspend all work on August 17, just days after it began. The halt is only temporary, to allow Rodney Scott, the head of Border Patrol, to visit the site and conduct a ” personal assessment ” of the situation, he announced on the social network X.
Read the full story at Reporterre.net (a French publication)
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