A group of private landowners in western and southwestern Texas filed a federal lawsuit Monday to stop the Trump administration from building border walls, barriers and roads through their properties.
\n\nThe group includes some property owners and local residents who were up in arms a couple of years ago demanding better enforcement along the border and criticizing the Biden administration for spikes in immigrant border crossings.
\n\nThe lawsuit was filed by Conserve Big Bend, an umbrella group that includes a coalition of about 230 landowners, and six plaintiffs. It was filed in Washington, D.C.
\n\nThe plaintiffs allege the administration has wrongly designated the area along the Texas border as one of “high illegal entry.”
\n\nThe Trump administration did so, the lawsuit states, to invoke “extraordinary power” to build a border wall on their property in “one of the most remote, rugged and ecologically significant stretches of the United States.”
\n\nBut in 2025 the Customs and Border Protection’s Big Bend sector, which stretches over 77 counties and the state of Oklahoma, tallied the fewest number of apprehensions — just 1.3% — among the total of nine southwest border sectors, according to the lawsuit.
\n\nThe same has been true in the last…
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