03/06/2026
Big Bend National Park before the proposed border wall gets built. In these photographs Mexico is across the Rio Grande. I'm confused how the 1,500ft Canyon Wall isn't already a wall. What was more shocking to me was before Big Bend National Park; was that the rest of the Rio Grande is so shallow you can walk across and it's lined by different cities and places where people fish and explore. (Those pictures start with the Lighthouse). The Rio Grande by the Lighthouse sometimes gets so low you can drive across the USA/Mexico border at ease, which is also about 2.5mi from SpaceX at the furthest distance, and about .1mi at the closest distance (No constructed border wall). There is around 500mi of border that I drove across and only saw about 1-3mi of Border wall, picture also below. Along the 500mi drive from SpaceX to Big Bend, I had seen floating surveillance blimps that monitored more rural areas, along with tank-like militarized vehicles. Kind of corny to pick on a National Park with a natural wall if you ask me. Especially when majority of the Texas border is border patrol officers in vehicles, border patrol stations every 50-100mi in all Directions, including one at the entrance of Big Bend (some with dogs), and "no trespassing signs" along the Texas communities. You'd think more money would be saved building a wall in the rest of the 500mi and saving on labor of Border Patrol Officers, than a National Park with a natural wall and rough terrain and little to no American Civilization and even less Mexican civilization.
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