"U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently posted a map charting a major expansion of the border wall — right through one of America’s most iconic wild areas."
"In a map update posted last month to U.S. Custom and Border Protection’s website, the agency charted a major expansion of the border wall. It included terrain belonging to one of America’s most iconic wild areas, Big Bend National Park, an 800,000-acre desert landscape that includes the entire Chisos mountain range and more than 100 miles of the Rio Grande.
A few steeply cliffed sections, including the famed Santa Elena Canyon, were marked “detection technology.” The rest of the park’s southern border, which touches Mexico, was designated “primary wall border system.”
CBP’s map, which appeared to call for a towering wall across a beloved national park, elicited fury from local politicians, law enforcement officials and conservationists across the country. CBP has since quietly altered its map, with an updated version limited solely to “detection technology” within the national park — though the proposal still appears to call for a physical wall within neighboring Big Bend Ranch State Park.
Opponents of a Big Bend border wall have welcomed CBP’s map tinkering as evidence that the public outcry has forced the agency to back down. But Homeland Security, CBP’s parent agency, has said little to re-assure conservationists."
Roque Planas reports for Public Domain March 12, 2026.
SEE ALSO:
"Groups Urge Congress To Reject Funding For Big Bend Border Wall" (National Parks Traveler)
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/03/groups-urge-congress-rejec...
