Nearly 70 Indigenous Rights, Wildlife, and Civil Rights Groups, are calling on the Biden Administration to Tear Down nearly 60 Miles of Border Fencing erected by the Previous Administration in Arizona, as well as some Fencing along other Regions of the Border.
While President Biden ordered a 60-day Halt to Review the Legality of the Project, Fencing is still being prepared, that will Cut through Tribal Lands and continues to Harm Communities and Wildlife in the Region.
One of the Longest Wall Sections in the Report runs along 7 miles of the Border near Quitobaquito Springs on Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Arrests of a Dozen Tohono O’odham Protesters late last year. One Activist was Shot with Rubber Bullets by Officers as he sang a Traditional Tohono O’odham song.
In addition to the Harms to Tribal Communities and their Lands in the Region, Environmental Groups have long raised Concerns that the Wall would cause Ecological Damage to Wildlife and Plant Species.
Advocates with the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the Groups comprising the Coalition Appealing to the Biden Administration, that currently, Construction has Gouged through a Critical Jaguar Habitat in the State’s Huachuca Mountains.
Even though Biden Terminated the so-called “National Emergency” Trump declared as an Excuse to Build his Wall, and Odered a Halt to Construction “as soon as possible but in no case later than seven days,” But last Month Video Footage of what appeared to be Bulldozers continuing on with Construction in apparent Violation of his Order.
These Big Cats depend on roaming freely through the Landscape for their very Survival. In many of these Locations, if the Wall doesn’t come down, that will be pushing these Species closer and closer to Extinction. The Organization said last month that “[m]any other animals use these remote areas to migrate across the landscape. A 2017 Center report identified 93 threatened and endangered species along the 2,000-mile border that would be harmed by Trump’s wall.”
The Supreme Court, last month, granted a Request from the Biden Administration to Cancel Arguments around Wall Litigation, as well as the inhumane “Remain in Mexico” Anti-Asylum Policy. Both Cases are still pending but will probably be Dismissed as Moot, since Biden's Justice Department will Not Defend either Facet of the Trump Immigration Policy.
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