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Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas

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Will Mexico be paying for us to destroy this national park? If not, why not?

You are joking…right?

It's satire, because this is an expansion of the border wall.

"....the Trump administration's plans to expand the president's border wall across one of the country's most remote national parks."

"I never dreamed leopards would eat... I mean, he'd actually build a wall, sobs person who voted for candidate who said he'd build a wall".

And I do realise that not everyone there voted for him.

Very sad and such a tragedy.

I spent some time there on a drive across the country and it was stunning.

This is a perfect oportunity to pass public private eco laws where wind mills and solar are combined with data centers on former parks that are now designated security zones, as it is the ONLY logical solution to the complex problems of our times.

I mean I can't have much sympathy here, it's Texas. They voted for this.

Texas is not a monolith. The people who are decrying this action are local conservation groups and activists. These are not necessarily the same people who voted to put the current administration in power.

To simply write this off as “they deserve it” would be a mistake, and is unproductive.

Great, I'm glad we settled this once and for all this so that I don't have to shoulder any more blame from Europeans about trump being president.

But they are the same group. Part of a democracy is that when the group decides, the group accepts the decision. Of course there can always be dissent, and no group is a monolith. But the fact is Texans voted for this. If Texans didn't want this they wouldn't have it.

It’s a National Park doofus, we should all be angry

A majority did, but Texas isn't unified politically. There's actually more blue voters in Texas than in many "blue" states. (And the inverse is true in California)

"Texas isn't a red state; it's a gerrymandered one." - a pre-LLM aphorism

Highly unproductive to write off the entirety of Texas like this. Have you visited Brewster or Presidio County, where this is happening, or spoken with the people who live there?

Big Bend is treasured by Texans across the political spectrum. I know nobody who is happy about this, regardless of how they vote. Environmentalists, ranchers, locals in general, strongly oppose this action by the Federal gov't.

The destruction in Big Bend is at the direction of folks who have never set foot there. It is not necessary. Just staying alive in that environment is difficult enough to deter mass migration. The existing River Road provides enough access, and probably some good vantage points (I'm not a border security expert).

Whatever happened to states rights? This Texas we're talking about, nobody living there wants this.

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