u/border_dad
· 5h
Vehicle barriers where smugglers drive are not a war on hiking. They are a gate.
CBP Says ‘Limited’ Barriers Going Up Amid Backlash For National Park Construction
CBP is putting limited barriers in Big Bend while activists scream wall.
Summary
- Customs and Border Protection said infrastructure at Big Bend National Park will be limited, not a 30-foot wall through the park.
- The plan covers one new access road, road upgrades, detection tech, and vehicle barriers in spots where smugglers drive through.
- Activists and some locals framed any build as a national-park betrayal.
- CBP's statement says Big Bend belongs to the American people and the job is to keep it safe.
- The fight sits inside a wider Texas border push after years of illegal crossings through remote river country.
Commentary
A park is not a free corridor for cartels. Detection gear and vehicle barriers are stewardship, not vandalism.
The left hears 'barrier' and invents stadium lights across the Rio Grande. Read the statement: limited kit, not a theme-park wall.
If you want fewer agents chasing bodies through desert canyons, you put steel where trucks run. That is ICE and CBP doing the job Congress already wrote.
Comments
Should CBP put barriers in Big Bend?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I have walked border ranch land. Trails full of trash and drop houses are not wilderness purity.
u/park_ranger
· 4h
Keep the trails. Stop the trucks. That is the whole CBP note.
u/rule_first
· 3h
Congress funded enforcement. CBP does not need a vibe check from the donor class to place a bollard.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Japan would not leave a national park as an open smuggling lane and call it virtue.
u/rio_watch
· 2h
Limited road + sensors beats catch-and-release after the body is already inland.
u/docket_rat
· 2h
USAID-style NGOs write press releases. Deputies write the after-action when someone dies in the canyon.
u/press_clip
· 70m
Daily Caller printed CBP's own words: no 30-foot wall through the park. Argue the text.
u/texas_mom
· 50m
If your kid's school sits downstream of a crossing corridor, you stop caring about the Instagram caption.
u/night_shift
· 40m
Put the barriers. Then count the drive-throughs that stop.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
