Trump's border wall push into West Texas has been halted after a bipartisan revolt from ranchers, Republican sheriffs, and Governor Greg Abbott — a win for locals, a setback for the contractors holding the money.

• Crews started clearing land inside Big Bend National Park without the usual environmental reviews or meetings with landowners.
• Almost nobody crosses there — a few hundred migrants a year, far fewer than on the Canadian border in a single month.
• A construction company whose owner gave over a million dollars to Trump's campaign landed a $1.7 billion contract for the work.
• The wall sits well inland from the Rio Grande, which would put roughly 280,000 acres of Texas land — and access to the river — on the far side of the barrier.
• Local sheriffs say sensors and cameras would work better, and warn the new access roads would help smugglers, not stop them.

Outlook: The pause is temporary while the CBP commissioner inspects the site, and locals expect the walls to return once the land is cleared.