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Saturday, September 16th, 2023

Watchdog Finds Trump Border Wall Harmed Environment, Indigenous Sites, and Wildlife

Author:     Jessica Corbett
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Publication Date:     Sep 07, 2023
 Link: Watchdog Finds Trump Border Wall Harmed Environment, Indigenous Sites, and Wildlife
Stephan:  

Has criminal Trump ever done anything that didn’t cause damage and degrade wellbeing? I can’t think of anything. And now we have the fact-based report on what his hate wall along the Southern border actually did. None of it is good, as this report describes.

To read the report upon which this article is based see: gao.gov/products/gao-23-105443

“This racist political stunt has been an ineffective waste of billions of American taxpayers’ dollars—and now we know it has caused immeasurable, irreparable harm,” said Congressman Raúl Grijalva.

A U.S. government watchdog agency on Thursday released a report exposing how former President Donald Trump’s wall construction along the nation’s border with Mexico negatively affected cultural and natural resources, as critics have long argued.

“The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of Defense (DOD) installed about 458 miles of border barrier panels across the southwest border from January 2017 through January 2021,” according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. “Most (81%) of the miles of panels replaced existing barriers.”

“The agencies installed over 62% of barrier miles on federal lands, including on those managed by the Department of the Interior,” the report continues. “Interior and CBP officials, as well as federally recognized tribes and stakeholders, noted that the barriers led to various impacts, including to cultural resources, water sources, and endangered species, and from erosion.”

The GAO document […]

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