{"id":188174,"date":"2026-03-03T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188174\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:09:24","slug":"46-texas-lawmakers-urge-abbott-to-halt-big-bend-border-wall-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/188174\/","title":{"rendered":"46 Texas lawmakers urge Abbott to halt Big Bend border wall construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) &#8211; Laredo Rep. Richard Pe\u00f1a Raymond is among 46 Texas lawmakers who, in a Feb. 28 letter, urged Gov. Greg Abbott to ask the Trump administration to halt plans to build a border wall in the Big Bend region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The lawmakers said modern surveillance, technology and coordination among local, state and federal agencies can effectively patrol the area without a wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Big Bend attracts nearly a million visitors a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more headlines, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgns.tv\/news\/local\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KGNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) &#8211; Laredo Rep. Richard Pe\u00f1a Raymond is among 46 Texas lawmakers who, in a Feb.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75014,9720,68459,75013,7685,7686,27963,75015,75012,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-188174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-46-texas-lawmakers-urge-abbott-to-halt-big-bend-border-wall-construction","9":"tag-big-bend","10":"tag-big-bend-national-park","11":"tag-group-says-surveillance-and-agency-coordination-can-secure-area-without-a-wall","12":"tag-kgns","13":"tag-laredo","14":"tag-lawmakers","15":"tag-representative-richard-pena","16":"tag-state-representatives","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-texas-headlines","19":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}