Bryan Devonshire retweetledi

There's been a slew of headlines this week saying the Big Bend border wall was "cancelled," but that's not the case at all.
Wall construction in the region is rapidly accelerating. Bulldozers are on site clearing land, survey stakes are in the ground, and all environmental laws have been waived to rush construction.
The only thing that changed, the "scoop" that led to all of these vastly overstated media stories, was one informal statement from the CBP commissioner in a Washington Examiner interview saying that they'd first be carving new paved roads through the national park and putting up steel "vehicle barriers." He didn't say CBP would *never* build walls in the park, just that they won't be doing it immediately. These new access roads will clear the path for future wall construction, and that could happen at any time. Remember, DHS has $46 billion to spend on the wall. No section of the border is safe, especially not Big Bend National Park.
Stay vigilant, stay strong and stay hopeful. Our pressure is so clearly making a difference—in all my time fighting border walls I've never seen public pressure actually get through to CBP and force them to alter their plans like they have here... But we can't afford to stop paying attention just because a few wildly overstated headlines said we "won."
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