News and Resources

• House Spending Bill Allots $5 Billion for Border Wall Construction and Security
  WASHINGTON (July 19, 2018) – Today the Department of Homeland Security House Appropriations Subcommittee passed a spending bill for fiscal year 2019 that includes $5 billion for physical border barriers and associated technology including 200 miles of destructive and controversial new barrier construction along the U.S.-Mexico border. The House bill ... read more
  Source: Defenders of WildlifePublished on 2018-07-19
• House Republicans Greenlight $5 Billion for 200 Miles of Destructive Border Wall, Enforcement
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  Source: Center for BiodiversityPublished on 2018-07-18
• House eyes $5 billion for Trump’s border wall, setting up showdown with Senate
  House Republicans hope to meet the president’s target. ... read more
  Source: Washington PostPublished on 2018-07-17
• House Rejects Immigration Overhaul Despite Trump’s Late Plea
  Divided House Republicans failed to pass legislation to protect young, undocumented immigrants, fund a border wall and make significant changes to legal immigration. ... read more
  Source: New York TimesPublished on 2018-06-27
• Arizona Voters Deserve to Know Joe Arpaio’s True Record of Brutality and Abuse
  Arpaio’s history of racial profiling, hostility towards immigrants, and extreme disregard for civil rights cannot be ignored. Last year, former sheriff Joe Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt after he defied a federal judge’s order to stop racially profiling and unlawfully detaining Latino residents of Maricopa County, Arizona. Less than ... read more
  Source: ACLUPublished on 2018-06-27
• Fact Check of the Day: No, Democrats Don’t Want ‘Open Borders’
  President Trump has made this false claim at least two dozen times since taking office. Democrats support border security measures, though not the border wall he wants to build. ... read more
  Source: New York TimesPublished on 2018-06-27
• Trump demands more border wall money, calls for ending the filibuster
  But he stops short of threatening a shutdown over the wall at a White House meeting, attendees say. ... read more
  Source: Washington PostPublished on 2018-06-26

RESOURCES

CASE AGAINST THE WALL

The Environmental Cost of Trump’s Border Wall – Center for Western Priorities
Why we don’t need Trump’s ‘great, great wall’ – Arizona Daily Star
New Border Walls Designed to Flood Texas Towns – Texas Observer
Border Lawmakers Balk at Donald Trump’s Wall Request – Wall Street Journal
Scientists say Trump’s border wall would devastate wildlife habitat – The Texas Tribune
Surprising Lives of Those Living Along U.S.-Mexico Border – National Geographic
There’s a better alternative to building a border wall: restoring the Rio Grande – Quartz
The environmental impact of the US-Mexico Border Wall – Newsweek
Why Trump’s wall won’t stretch ‘from sea to shining sea’ – Washington Post
The Founders would have opposed seizing land for Trump’s border wall – Washington Post

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