News and Resources
- Submit a comment opposing the border wall by October 20thCustoms and Border Protection (CBP) is accepting comments about their extreme border wall plans in South Texas which include Concrete levee-border walls topped with 18-feet-tall steel bollards which will wall off all of Hidalgo County from the Rio Grande. Border walls built in the Rio Grande floodplain in Starr ... read more
- Conservation Groups Challenge Border Wall Construction in San Diego, Imperial ValleyMedia contacts: Catalina Tresky, Defenders of Wildlife, ctresky@defenders.org, (202) 772-0253 Courtney Bourgoin, Sierra Club, courtney.bourgoin@sierraclub.org, (202) 495-3022 Animal Legal Defense Fund, media@aldf.org WASHINGTON (Sept. 14, 2017) – A coalition of national conservation groups including Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club and Animal Legal Defense Fund filed suit against the Department ... read more
- Sierra Club Challenges Trump Administration to Obtain Border Wall Information Sierra Club Stands Against Dangerous Waivers for Trump Border WallTuesday, September 12, 2017 ... read more
- Sierra Club Stands Against Dangerous Waivers for Trump Border WallTuesday, September 12, 2017 ... read more
- Super Tuesday for the Border WallSeven cities across Texas's Rio Grande Valley approved anti–border wall resolutions Tuesday in a unified show of grassroots opposition by the communities that would be most impacted by the wall’s construction. As environmental and immigrant-rights activists scrambled from one city hall to another at meetings that lasted from noon to ... read more
- August 1, 2017 – Trump Administration Ignores Laws to Rush Border Wall Construction... read more
- Sierra Club to Trump Admin & Congress: Don’t Create New Disasters with Border Wall and Relief CutsFriday, September 1, 2017 ... read more
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
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