Texans fighting plans to expand President Donald Trump’s border wall through Big Bend National Park are blindsided after learning demolition crews have already begun blowing craters into the bedrock, Daily Mail can reveal.

‘It’s an ambush. There are going to be a lot of tears,’ Alaine Berg, who runs Eve’s Garden Bed and Breakfast in Marathon told the Daily Mail Monday.

Sticks of TNT have been used for the past two weeks to blow up land near Big Bend National Park where Trump’s controversial border wall will be built, according to sources with US Border Patrol who asked to remain anonymous because they are not authorized to disclose the information.

‘They’ve been blowing things up for about the last two weeks. Underneath the surface is rock, not dirt. They have to blow it up in order to build the wall. No one knows about it because there’s no one out here to see it, but the project is moving head,’ one border agent told Daily Mail. 

News of the explosions is likely to set off a powder keg that’s been brewing for weeks, as residents and local law enforcement have been fighting efforts to build the wall under the belief that construction was still in planning phases. 

‘Our hearts were already broken by this, and such anger. Everyone is already doing as much as they can do (to protest.) They’re not being honest with us. We don’t know anything,’ Berg shared.

The federal official pointed out that even though the detonations are happening just outside Big Bend National Park, the construction crews setting them off are using protected lands to travel to the explosion sites. 

For months, residents in the small towns that make up Big Bend- Marathon, Sanderson, Alpine, Marfa and Terlingua- have been organizing in hopes of stopping the construction on the project. 

The proposed wall would cut through the remote Big Bend sector along the US-Mexico border  and extend across surrounding desert and mountain terrain

Last week, bulldozers arrived in Big Bend National Park, however, locals were unaware constructions crews have been setting off explosives around the park to build on it

‘All of the economy of Marathon is based on that park. The whole of Marathon would collapse. This is our economy. That’s all there is,’ Berg explained.

Locals have expressed fears that the roads and structures added to the park would dissuade nature-loving tourists who come to raft the Rio Grande River, which also serves as international boundary between the US and Mexico.

Tourists also travel to the remote desert, designated a Gold Tier International Dark Sky Park designation in 2012, because it’s one of the few places in the US where the Milky Way can be seen with the naked eye at night.

‘The boats can’t get in so there will be no adventure tourism on the river,’ Berg added. 

US Customs and Border Protection claimed construction is not happening inside the park, but did not address construction outside of the park.

‘Construction crews are onsite re-grading roads that were damaged by recent storms that are required for access to conduct surveys,’ a CBP spokesman told the Daily Mail via an emailed statement. 

‘CBP’s contractor is clearing out areas to support the design and survey phase, ahead of the start of construction activities.’

The federal government first announced plans to build the wall in Big Bend last year as part of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’

When the announcement caused an uproar, the feds backed off, pledging there would be no wall inside the national park, however, current maps by CBP show a two-mile vehicle barrier in the park. 

The vehicle barrier planned for the park is not the typical 30-40 foot steel bollard fence so many people are familiar with on the border. Instead, the vehicle barrier looks like a series of connected steel Xs four to six feet in height.

The Trump administration has also waived dozens of federal laws protecting national parks in order to move forward with the project. 

 President Donald Trump’s administration has moved to waive nearly 30 federal environmental laws to fast-track a 175-mile border wall through Texas’ Big Bend region

Daily Mail sources reveal that the explosions around Big Bend National Park have been taken place for about the last weeks in order for the border wall to be built

The Department of Homeland Security has signaled its intent to sidestep 28 regulations ‘in their entirety’ in order to ‘ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads,’ according to a filing in the Federal Register

Previous Republican and Democrat American presidents had never built a border wall in the remote region of the Lone Star State because the land itself is largely considered a natural barrier. 

‘We don’t need it,’ Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland, the top cop in Sanderson, told Daily Mail.

The retired Border Patrol agent said that an immigration checkpoint along the remote roads would do more stop illegal immigration in the region than any man-made barrier. 

However, illegal immigrant traffic only makes up about 1 percent of all illegal traffic in the US, according to US Customs and Border Protection figures.  

Cleveland is just one of the many local sheriffs and county judges that have come out against the addition to the border wall. 

As the locals helplessly watch construction continue on the wall they loathe, they plan to keep fighting, with a protest set for Wednesday morning. in one of the Big Bend’s most famous areas, Santa Elena.

‘It’s just a waste of of resources: taxpayer dollars, ecological resources, business people’s livelihoods, ranchers’ livelihood. It’s not needed in this area, and there’s just no way that it makes sense,’ town local Rosalina Crase said.