Trump Is Pushing a Border Wall in My Backyard.

Trump is pushing a border wall in my backyard.

I’m Isaac Saul, and this is Tangle: an independent, nonpartisan, subscriber-supported politics newsletter that summarizes the best arguments from across the political spectrum on the news of the day — then “my take.”When I was 14 years old, I traveled to the Big Bend region of West Texas for the first time.My extended family had lived along the U.S.–Mexico border since the 1970s, but this was my first time visiting them. As a suburban kid from P…

Texans love Big Bend for its wildness. Donald Trump wants to put a wall through it.

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Rio Grande rage: Why are Texans just saying no to Trump's border wall?

Landowners and tourists, nature lovers and hunters, Democrats and Republicans speak out against plans to extend the border wall through Big Bend.

Big Bend reporter says locals' reaction to park border wall 'almost completely negative'

Sam Karas wrote on Feb. 18 about those plans.

Republicans gripe about Trump plan to build wall through 'God-made barrier'

Since his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump has been promising a wall on the U.S./Mexico border that would run through four different states."Two hours from the closest stoplight," Chandler explains in an article published on February 27, "the Rio Grande runs through rugged canyons under the darkest skies in the Lower 48 states, carving cliffs that drop 1500 feet below the desert floor of the beautifully desolate Big Bend National Park. The few who ca…