News and Resources

UTRGV Environmental Awareness Club Calls Attention to Migrants Who Died in the Rio Grande Valley with a Día de los Muertos Altar
BY STEFANIE HERWECK Among the altars community members have decorated for Saturday’s Día de los Muertos Celebration at the Museum of South Texas History is one dedicated to immigrants and... Read more
Published on: 2019-11-01
Source: Sierra Club Rio Grande Vally
If DACA Ends, It Would Be a ‘Catastrophe’ For Dreamers
On June 15, 2012, Juan Carlos Cerda was installing a fan on the second-floor bedroom of a house in Preston Hollow, a wealthy neighborhood in north Dallas, when President Barack... Read more
Published on: 2019-11-01
Source: Texas Observer
Theme for 2019 All Souls Procession: Wildlife Endangered by Border Wall
Published on: 2019-10-28
Source: Center for Biodiversity
McCain warned Graham to avoid Trump drama. Instead, the GOP senator is a major player.
The South Carolina lawmaker has become the president’s highest-profile defender on everything from border wall funds to opposing the House impeachment inquiry.... Read more
Published on: 2019-10-26
Source: Washington Post
Trump’s many geography fails
His flub on Colorado and the border wall wasn't the first.... Read more
Published on: 2019-10-24
Source: Washington Post
Trump’s many geography fails
His flub on Colorado and the border wall wasn't the first.... Read more
Published on: 2019-10-24
Source: Washington Post
The Daily 202: Mexico isn't paying for Trump’s border wall. But it is footing the bill for a historic surge of asylum seekers in the country.
The country’s asylum systems are at capacity, experts say.... Read more
Published on: 2019-10-24
Source: Washington Post
The Destruction Caused by the Border Wall Is Worse Than You Think
Photo by Bill Hatcher This article was produced in collaboration with Type Investigations. It’s an almost solemn moment: A single saguaro cactus, perhaps 10 feet tall, is ripped from the desert... Read more
Published on: 2019-10-21
Source: Sierra Magazine
ICYMI: Hot America vs. Cold America & Squirrel Assassins
A jet stream splits the US, bringing winter to one half (40 inches of snow in Montana) and record-breaking heat (98°F in Washington, DC) to the other—a phenomenon that climate... Read more
Published on: 2019-10-04
Source: Sierra Magazine
The Trump Administration is Waging a War on People Fleeing Persecution. We Can’t Let Them Win.
The ACLU is in court tomorrow fighting to block cruel anti-asylum policies, but we need your help. In June 1939, a passenger ship named the St. Louis approached the coast... Read more
Published on: 2019-09-30
Source: ACLU
Attacked in Mexico, Returned to Mexico: Trump Policy Ignores Danger to Asylum-Seekers
Under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), the Trump administration has returned more than 48,000 asylum-seekers since January to await their court dates in Mexico, a country where kidnapping and assault... Read more
Published on: 2019-09-30
Source: Texas Observer
Who Is John Cornyn Serving?
After 20 years in Washington, the senior senator from Texas has mastered the art of political subservience—first to the Republican establishment and now to Trump. It’s made him very powerful.... Read more
Published on: 2019-09-30
Source: Texas Observer
House votes to overturn Trump’s national emergency to fund border wall — but falls short of veto-proof majority
President Trump is certain to veto the resolution, which also passed the Senate.... Read more
Published on: 2019-09-27
Source: Washington Post
The Untapped Potential of the Rio
The River and the Wall, a 2019 documentary by Fin and Fur Films, is a love letter to the fourth longest river in the United States: the Rio Grande. Forming the... Read more
Published on: 2019-09-25
Source: Sierra Magazine
Trump tours border barrier as part of a show of force on immigration ahead of reelection campaign
The visit comes as the administration has felt emboldened after winning new legal authority to move forward in funding a border wall and gaining additional powers to enforce asylum restrictions.... Read more
Published on: 2019-09-18
Source: Washington Post
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RESOURCES

EXPERIENCING THE BORDERLANDS

Navigating the Borderlands
Borderline: Navigating the invisible boundary and physical barriers that define the U.S.-Mexico border
America’s Wall
Embattled Borderlands
Up Against the Wall
USA Today’s In-Depth Examination of the Border Wall
Faces of the Borderlands
Along the border, 500 miles of desert species

BACKGROUND

Maps, science and photographs documenting border impacts
Border Security and Accountability Act of 2015 – Fact Sheet
Wall Street’s Border Wall: How 5 Firms Benefit Financially from Anti-Immigrant Policy
Past, Present, and Future Impacts of Walls on the U.S.-Mexico Border

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

Photo: Krista Schlyer