Border Wall

The bulldozers have stopped in Big Bend for now. But for how long? And what does this mean for other culturally sensitive areas on the border slated for border wall construction? The Trump administration says the wall is needed to prevent illegal immigration, but critics say this pristine land is not a crossing point. The latest on the legal fight to save Big Bend.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said Monday he was "pausing all construction activity" in the West Texas park ahead of a visit to the region this week. Scott's visit comes after two weeks of public outcry over images of bulldozers and other heavy machinery clearing land in the park.

Hundreds of federal border buoys broke loose during recent flooding along the Rio Grande, disrupting traffic at international bridges and intensifying concerns that the floating barriers could endanger critical infrastructure and public safety.

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico announced his border security plan during a campaign stop Monday in Terrell County. Talarico called the Trump administration's Big Bend border wall a "monument to corruption."

Officials in the small West Texas border city of Presidio are asking a federal judge to temporarily block border wall construction, arguing the plan would leave locals vulnerable to "deadly" flash flooding.

The Trump administration is accelerating plans for new border barriers along hundreds of miles of the Texas-Mexico border, prompting protests, property disputes, and lawsuits from landowners and environmental groups.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says border wall panels will start being installed in the region late this summer or early fall. Multiple signs of construction moving forward have surfaced in recent weeks, from the development of a "man camp" worker housing facility to apparent deliveries of steel bollards to the region.

An unusual coalition of people across the political spectrum have banded together to rally against a border wall in the Big Bend.

This week on Texas Matters: Sections of SB4 are blocked — which would have allowed local police to arrest suspected illegal border crossers. And Despite outcry in West Texas the efforts to build the border wall in Big Bend Country continues.

The Trump administration is moving ahead with a new border security project in the Rio Grande — a floating barrier of linked buoys. The effort, known as Operation River Wall, calls for more than 500 miles of buoy barriers in the river along the Texas-Mexico border. There are questions about how the buoys would function during a flooding event.