‘It’s massive destruction’: outcry in Texas over waivers to allow border wall in Big Bend national park (opens in new tab)

Despite plunging border crossings, the Trump administration is circumventing laws to expedite building in a vast, pristine wilderness The has waived a slew of environmental and historical preservation laws that would allow it to build a towering border wall that cuts through Big Bend national park, a vast protected wilderness in south Texas.Congress poured a whopping $46.5bn for border wall construction into the “Big, Beautiful” bill last year, supercharging ’s ambition to wall off the southe...