Anyone who has ever hiked in the Big Bend knows how absurd it is to extend that stupid wall through the park. The terrain is very difficult, the climate unforgiving most of the year. The whole area is remote. It’s easier to cross the US-Mexico border nearly anywhere else. From @texastribune.org
Joseph Britt
A proposal to bar the Trump administration from building a border wall in Big Bend, which is rarely traversed by migrants, died Wednesday in the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, after the GOP-controlled panel rejected the idea along party lines. bit.ly/4usfoGG
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar sought to bar the Trump administration from using federal funds to build border barriers in the national park, which is rarely traversed by migrants.
