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- Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans a patrol road across Mariscal Mountain in Texas’s Big Bend National Park.
- The Center for Biological Diversity said on August 6 the road would need dynamite blasting.
- Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) sent a July 31 letter to Secretary Marco Rubio to halt work until designs are released.
- CBP data show encounters in the Big Bend Sector fell 85 percent, with 148 in June 2026 versus 412 in June 2023.
