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Stop the border barrier plan in Big Bend country
U.S. Customs and Border Protection · TX
- What
- Customs and Border Protection plans 17 miles of vehicle barrier and about 205 miles of patrol roads through Brewster County, the wild Texas borderlands around Big Bend, and is taking public comment through July 13.
- Where
- TX
- How much
- One of the most remote stretches of protected country on the border: the Rio Grande corridor beside Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park, crossed by up to 24-foot-wide patrol roads, steel barriers, cameras, and utility corridors.
- Decided
- Comments closed; deadline not stated by the agency. No decision document is on file yet.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the Official page ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- DecidedWe haven’t found where this fight’s close date came from, so the card shows no date. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
No decision document is on PLAN’s record for this fight yet. When the agency’s decision lands, what it answered goes here.
PLAN's read: high threat
Customs and Border Protection plans 17 miles of vehicle barrier and about 205 miles of patrol roads through Brewster County, the wild Texas borderlands around Big Bend, and is taking public comment through July 13.
What’s at risk
If this goes through
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
The groups on this fight
4 groups predicted likely to care in Texas
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Texas, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Big Bend Conservancy
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Big Bend National Park, Texas: A nonprofit partner of Big Bend National Park.
- Friends of Balcones Canyonlands NWR
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works Texas: They work only in Texas.
- National Parks Conservation Association
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Padre Island National Seashore, Texas: Plaintiff in the challenge to the blanket Gulf oil and gas endangered species exemption, naming Padre Island among the threatened parks.
- Southern Environmental Law Center
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Padre Island National Seashore, Texas: Filed the D.C. Circuit challenge to the Gulf-wide exemption for the plaintiff coalition.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
Who signs it
The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.
The ground
The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.
The photograph on this page: Santa Elena Canyon on the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park (NPS / B. Trester). It’s the country this decision sits in, not the site itself. More Than Just Parks.
In court on this ground
This fight isn’t bound to a land unit in PLAN’s record yet, so there are no court cases to show for its ground.
Who holds the vote
PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.
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