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re: Call & Write your Congressman: Big Bend is no place for a border wall
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:09 pm to Smeg
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:09 pm to Smeg
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Number of migrants crossing in the Big Bend drops sharply as other sectors see surge
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PRESIDIO COUNTY –– On the rugged Bennett Barrows Road at the western edge of the county –– 16 miles from pavement and less than a mile from the Rio Grande –– a metal cross stands near the spot where a man, walking into the United States in a group of eight, died on June 27, 2021.
Seven miles northeast of that metal cross where Jose Lopez Vasquez died in the 100-degree heat, another cross stands on another dirt road leading toward the Helios oil operations, and after that, the Coal Mine Ranch. This second cross, wooden but also set firmly in the earth, marks the spot where, six days before the death of Lopez Vasquez, a 15-year-old boy from Ecuador died while walking with his father toward the rim rock of the Sierra Vieja and Highway 90 beyond.
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The Border Patrol’s Big Bend Sector covers 517 miles of the Rio Grande, from Sierra Blanca in the west to Sanderson in the east. Total Border Patrol encounters with migrants in the sector, one measure of the volume of traffic, fell nearly 70% from a 2021 peak of 37,266 to 11,823 in the 2023 fiscal year that ended September 30. That downward trend appears to be holding into this new year, with 906 Border Patrol encounters through November, a rate that could lead to a total in 2024 that is even lower.
According to a Border Patrol spokesman, agents encountered 70 deceased migrants in the Big Bend in 2021 and 2022 and six in 2023. The Border Patrol says that sharp drop comes in part because of extra efforts to rescue migrants walking through the desert. The Border Patrol has installed 26 rescue beacons in remote stretches and responded to 16 calls for help from migrants at those beacons last year.
The Big Bend Sentinel
You border wall idiots want to ruin a beautiful national park for 11,823 people crossing?
Seriously? You think it is worth it?
There is already technology there monitoring the border which you obviously had no clue about.
Daddy Trump tells you how to think after all.
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Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:10 pm to jclem11
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Big Bend is a desert and is inhospitable for 6 plus months year with extremely high temparatures with little water or cover from the sun. There are many stories of people dying in the park.
I thought you said thriving local communities were at risk.
How can a community thrive if it’s inhospitable for 6 months out of the year?
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:10 pm to jclem11
Visiting there a decade+ ago made me think it would be insane to build a wall through this.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:10 pm to dgnx6
Border wall doesn’t have to be right on the border. Can be set back a ways from the border. Could probably be built and not be very noticeable by most.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:11 pm to SW2SCLA
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For fricks sake leave the national parks alone
Illegals will trash it if they think they can get through.
6 one way 1/2 doz another.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:11 pm to jclem11
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There is already technology there monitoring the border
That is all that's needed
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:12 pm to Adam Banks
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There’s a lot more at risk than this with unfettered illegal immigration.
The traffic through Big Bend is basically zero now dude.
Do some research before spouting off.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:13 pm to loogaroo
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Illegals will trash it if they think they can get through
Has it happened yet? Why would it be trashed now and not in the past?
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:13 pm to jclem11
I just wrote my congressman and asked that we make that stretch of wall 10 feet higher.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:14 pm to Riverside
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I just wrote my congressman and asked that we make that stretch of wall 10 feet higher.
Let me guess. Mexico will pay that as well
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:14 pm to Adam Banks
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How can a community thrive if it’s inhospitable for 6 months out of the year?
I was referring to trying to cross the Chihuahuan desert which is what you seem so worried about.
Even though I posted a recent article stating the crossing in Big Bend are trending down and statistically zero.
Don't let facts hurt your feelings.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:16 pm to BamaSaint
Mexico has through tariffs and taxes on remittances in the Big Beautiful Bill.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:16 pm to loogaroo
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Illegals will trash it if they think they can get through.
America is 250 years old this year.
Why is this suddenly a problem?
I was at Big Bend 2 months ago and the park is not trashed.
Boquillas Canyon has some Mexicans that leave some of their artwork to make a few bucks but it was not trashed.
Why do yall keep spouting off ignorantly?
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:17 pm to TT9
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you think they know this? They let their algorithms tell them what to do/think.
Arabian Sea
eta: no wall needed for Big Bend. Ain’t no one crossing there. They’d die long before strolling through a national park only to be scooped up by ICE. I’ve been there and stayed there multiple times, it’s an incredible but desolate place.
eta2: fwiw, build the WALL on every inch of the Mexico border otherwise. frick the illegals.
This post was edited on 2/26/26 at 8:23 pm
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:20 pm to jclem11
I have camped in terlingua a half dozen time. It's a great place wall not necessary considering the south side of the border is more inhospitable than the north. About 3 Air conditioned border control shacks is a whole lot cheaper than drones or walls
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:21 pm to jclem11
We need a physical wall. We learned that Joe Biden and democrats will allow invading armies of international illegals to inundate the border anywhere there isn’t an actual barrier. In fact his administration sued Texas to prohibit the state from erecting barriers to stop the invasion in 2022.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:21 pm to jclem11
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Don't let facts hurt your feelings.
You seem to be mixing up what is fact and fiction in order to be a bleeding heart.
You stated that thriving communities are at risk because a border wall might go through a national park-fabrication
That national park is essentially an uninhabitable desert and has only 250 people living in it who are employees of the park service and their family.
That’s what a fact is.
Conflating a big bend border wall as cutting through a “thriving community” would be a fabrication intended to provoke feelings
This post was edited on 2/26/26 at 8:25 pm
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:23 pm to jclem11
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I visited Big Bend over the Christmas break and it has a special place in my heart.
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:30 pm to dgnx6
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The proposed wall is from Ft Quitman to Redford.
You do realize there is a Big Bend State park, correct?
Which is near Ft. Quitman and Redford is, correct?
Just so we are clear. My OP referenced the Big Bend region as a whole...
Posted on 2/26/26 at 8:31 pm to Cosmo
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Parts of the park may need a wall
Obviously the 500 foot high canyon parts dont
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