Texas landowners sue to block Trump border wall plans in the remote Big Bend region - KLBK | KAMC | EverythingLubbock.com

The lawsuit comes from Conserve Big Bend, a nonprofit focused on protecting the region's landscape, along with six landowners and backing from dozens more people who live along the border. They're pushing back against a $46 billion federal effort to line roughly 2,000 miles of the southern border with 30-foot steel bollard walls, vehicle barriers and surveillance technology meant to stop illegal crossings.

Big Bend sits far from the interstate crossings most people picture when they think about border wall fights. It's rugged, sparsely populated country, and the people suing say the infrastructure would cut through land they've ranched and lived on for generations. For folks in Lubbock who don't think about the border much beyond headlines, this is a reminder that West Texas is not one uniform stretch of land. It's ranch country, national park land and small towns all fighting over what gets built where.

If the lawsuit succeeds, it could slow or reshape construction plans in that section of the border. If it fails, landowners could see walls and barriers built through property some of their families have held for decades.