A couple of days ago, Eliza Barclay and Sarah Frostenson at Vox took a look at the ecological damage that might be caused if Pr*sident Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico gets built. On Wednesday the Center for Biological Diversity and Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, sued the Trump regime and called on federal agencies to undertake a comprehensive probe into the proposed wall’s negative environmental impacts.
In a press release, the CBD stated:
“Trump’s border wall will divide and destroy the incredible communities and wild landscapes along the border,” said Kierán Suckling, the Center’s executive director.
“Endangered species like jaguars and ocelots don’t observe international boundaries and should not be sacrificed for unnecessary border militarization. Their survival and recovery depends on being able to move long distances across the landscape and repopulate places on both sides of the border where they’ve lived for thousands of years.”
In 2006, Congress gave Homeland Security broad authority over border control, allowing it among other things to waive environmental protections in the name of national security. But this did not eliminate requirements to determine eco-impacts under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970, according to CBD’s lawyers.
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