Anonymous ID: c2e58e May 14, 2020, 10:32 a.m. No.9171465   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Yahoo news says that darn border wall is horrible

 

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/border-wall-construction-plows-southwestern-us-undeterred-covid-211003137.html

 

>Federal government filings show the list of environmental law waivers authorized under Wolf to make way for construction include parts of the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act.

>Bulldozers and other heavy machinery have been brought up to the edge of the Oregon Pipe National Monument outside Tucson,

>where crews have also detonated bedrock to lay the barrier's foundation.

>Crews have worked to remove cactus and other plant life near the international wildlife preserve to make way for access roads which Border Patrol say are needed to enhance security.

>The Army Corps of Engineers in February conducted a series of controlled blasts along a sacred Native American heritage site known as Monument Hill.

 

>PHOTO: Cactuses in southern Arizona are removed to make way for the border wall in November 2019. (Laiken Jordahl)

 

>The work has drawn the ire of local community advocates who accuse Wolf of ignoring the irreversible damage that could be done to the Sonoran Desert landscape.

>"Wolf is responsible for ramming border walls into our communities, bulldozing our state's beloved saguaro cactuses and demolishing indigenous sacred sites,"

>said Laiken Jordahl, an environmental advocate based in Tucson. "Now he's wasting time with a dog-and-pony show while people are suffering

>and dying of COVID-19 in his detention facilities."