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CBP Weighs Scaling Back Big Bend Border Wall Project

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  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection is weighing a scale-back of the Big Bend National Park border project.
  • The agency will announce the final plan the first week of October and pause construction for weeks.
  • Environmental groups, private landowners, Native American tribes and locals oppose the 30-foot steel bollard wall across 61 miles.
  • CBP warns that continued landowner resistance could trigger Department of Justice condemnation actions.