I'd been working on a story about the proposed border wall that aimed to bisect Big Bend National Park in Texas for the last few weeks, having recently spoken with Bob Krumenaker, the Chair of Keep Big Bend Wild, as well as being the former superintendent for Big Bend, about the proposal.
The idea was to illustrate that Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) plans for Big Bend, and the construction of a border wall through the pristine wilderness and paving one of the coolest off-road trails around—the Black Gap and River Roads—were a bad idea. And the feds were making the same argument here as they were with when they called to kill the Roadless Rule a few months prior: It's for homeland security.
