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Mary Cantrell/Marfa Public RadioTexas Democrats are urging the Trump administration to delay its plans for building border barriers and roads across the West Texas park. Bulldozers and trucks bearing the logo of the contractor awarded $1.7 billion for the project were seen in the national park on Tuesday as local activists warn construction could start at any moment. -
Travis Bubenik/Marfa Public RadioA federal judge on Sunday rejected a Presidio, Texas entity’s request to block construction over claims that the Trump administration violated the Rivers and Harbors Act in pursuing the border wall build near the city’s levee system.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A small Texas town is challenging the Trump administration's border wall plans, arguing they could cause flooding and bypass legal processes. The Department of Homeland Security is pushing a $46 billion plan to complete the wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. But it is facing opposition from landowners, environmental groups, and Native American tribes. -
Controversial buoys installed in the Rio Grande by the federal government have broken free and are floating downstream. The buoys could cause damage to international bridges and other infrastruture along the border river. -
The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas spoke out against the Trump administration’s Big Bend area border wall plans this week while campaigning in West Texas, calling the wall a "monument to corruption.” -
A recent lawsuit claims border agencies violated the federal Rivers and Harbors Act as part of the Trump administration’s plan for a border wall through the Big Bend region. The Department of Homeland Security responded by waiving that law, so it doesn’t have to follow it.
