Posts about Texas

Customs and Border Protection claimed that construction on a border security project in Big Bend National Park in Texas was limited to “survey and design” work. Visual Investigations’ satellite[…]

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[…]

For over a generation, Texas Republicans have owned the politics of the southern border. Now the Trump administration’s latest border project has them cornered, stuck between constituents outraged over federal[…]

The Billion Worlds newsletter was created to help open my eyes and yours to worlds of hopeful possibilities we may not have known were there. Sadly, in recent months[…]

Last spring, when drought had slowed the flow of the Rio Grande through Big Bend National Park to little more than a trickle, I slung a daypack over my[…]

Dozens of Texas lawmakers earlier this week urged Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to put a stop to the Trump administration’s plans to build border barrier installations at Big Bend National Park. 

Bob Krumenaker, chair of Keep Big Bend Wild and former Superintendent of Big Bend National Park, told TheTravel in an emailed statement that the U.S. government intends to build[…]

Among the many reasons people love far West Texas is the dark skies over the Big Bend region. It’s a wide-open pool of stars, complete with the Milky Way.

It’s not often Republican sheriffs and a Democratic lawmaker stand behind the same podium to talk about border security, but that’s what happened Monday afternoon in Sanderson, Texas.

James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, slammed the Trump administration’s plan to build a 175-mile stretch of border wall in the Big Bend region at a campaign event[…]