The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection has insisted that the Trump administration’s plans to add border wall infrastructure across the Big Bend region of Texas will not bend despite pushback from local communities and even some Republicans.

CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said the government’s resolution to finish hundreds more miles of border wall system up and down the U.S.-Mexico border, including in and around Big Bend National Park, was “non-negotiable.”

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