Trump Admin Halts Border Wall Construction Amid Concerns Over Big Bend

Border construction in Big Bend National Park was paused as environmental, legal and local concerns grow.

Customs and Border Protection is pausing construction in Big Bend National Park, CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said in an X post on Monday.

The Trump administration temporarily paused border wall construction at Big Bend National Park in Texas while U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott visits the site, Scott announced Monday. Why it matters: The wall's construction inside the national park has been the subject of bipartisan pushback

Members of the Tohono O'odham Nation had erected "no trespassing" signs in reaction to federal workers visiting the border sites to scope out construction.

A federal judge ruled against a Native American tribe's trespassing claims, citing a 1907 proclamation reserving 60 feet of Arizona border land.

A federal judge for the District Court of the District of Columbia sided with the Trump administration by shutting down a request from a Native American tribal nation to block the southern border wall from spanning across their territory. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, appointed by former President George W. Bush