EL PASO — Advocacy groups and a West Texas resident filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration for bypassing environmental laws to speed up its efforts to build a border barrier in the Big Bend area along the Rio Grande, arguing the move is not only illegal but that a wall “will destroy iconic sections of the Rio Grande corridor.”
“I’ve spent more than two decades guiding on the river, and if a border wall cuts off access, that’s the end of my career,” said Danny William Miller, Jr., a professional river guide and Terlingua resident who is one of the plaintiffs. “No one comes to Big Bend to see steel walls and razor wire. If they build this, they’re not just destroying a landscape, they’re wiping out our way of life.”
