Keep Texas State Parks and Water Out of the Border Wall

The federal government waived its own environmental laws for the Big Bend wall, but Texas still controls its state parks and its groundwater.

A letter to your state legislators. Facts checked June 12, 2026.

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Subject Don't Hand Texas Parks and Groundwater to the Border Wall

Texas does not have to hand over its parks and its water to build the border wall. The federal government waived its own environmental laws to fast-track construction through the Big Bend region, but the state still controls its land and its groundwater.

Customs and Border Protection asked Texas Parks and Wildlife for access to three state parks, including Big Bend Ranch State Park. CBP has changed the map again and again, dropping the state park one week and leaving it open the next. A promise that shifts every week is not protection.

The water is the other lever. Ranches in the wall's path are selling their groundwater to mix concrete and hold down dust, in a desert where water is already scarce. Texas regulates its own groundwater.

The Legislature should make the refusal permanent. Bar Texas Parks and Wildlife from granting any easement or access across state parks and state-owned land for border wall construction, and stop the use of Texas groundwater to build it.

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I'm calling to ask the Legislature to keep Texas state parks and groundwater out of the border wall.
Customs and Border Protection asked Texas Parks and Wildlife for access to three state parks, including Big Bend Ranch, and the plan keeps changing week to week.
Ranches in the wall's path are selling their groundwater to mix concrete and suppress dust, in a desert where water is already scarce.
Please bar Texas Parks and Wildlife from granting easements across state parks and state land for the wall, and stop the use of Texas groundwater to build it.
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The Facts Behind the Ask

3 state parks Big Bend Ranch, Seminole Canyon, and Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley, where CBP asked Texas Parks and Wildlife for border wall access (source)
$1.7 billion federal contract for the Big Bend wall, awarded to a Montana firm run by a Trump donor (source)
1.3% of Border Patrol apprehensions are in the Big Bend sector, the least-crossed stretch of the southern border (source)

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