Border wall updates: County to discuss road permits for contractors, and landowner meeting reveals Border Patrol agreeable to changes in wall placement

Border wall updates: County to discuss road permits for contractors, and landowner meeting reveals Border Patrol agreeable to changes in wall placement

Presidio County Presidio County commissioners will meet Wednesday with a discussion item “regarding the establishment of a special road use permitting procedure on county roads.” The item involves Barnard Construction’s attempt to improve Chispa Road to transport border wall materials and equipment down to the Rio Grande. Those efforts were thwarted, at least temporarily, by Jeff Davis and Presidio counties’ officials telling the company it was …