Thread by @LaikenJordahl

.@DHSgov just published an "environmental stewardship plan" for 63 miles of #BorderWall construction in Arizona.

This plan, released 14 months after the bulldozers started ripping through AZ wilderness, is full of false promises, contradictions & outright lies... THREAD /1

For starters, the plan came out more than a year after wall construction started -- long after @DHSgov butchered hundreds of ancient saguaro cactuses, blasted Indigenous sacred sites, destroyed endangered species habitat & depleted fragile of groundwater aquifers. /2

I asked the @CBPArizona public lands liaison: what's the point of publishing a stewardship plan more than a year *after* the damage was done?

He refused to answer & said I should email a generic @CBP address with my question. No responses yet... (& I'm not holding my breath). /3

The plan is full of false promises & outright lies like this one, which says DHS will immediately stop groundwater pumping if it is found to have an "adverse effect" on endangered aquatic species. /4

As a reminder, @CenterForBioDiv unearthed a trove of FOIA docs this August where career @USFWS scientists called the pumping of 700,000 gals/day for the border wall the "current greatest threat to endangered species in the SW region." /5

Link: news.azpm.org/p/news-topical…

The science is clear. Water extraction for the wall threatens to wipe endangered species off the map. But @DHSgov won't even follow the rules they set for themselves. They're violating their own (minimal & inadequate) policies & refusing to change course. Extinction looms... /6

Total silence from @USBPChiefTCA & others at the helm of the destruction. This gross lack of accountability & refusal to listen to border communities, tribal nations & federal scientists has become a staple in every aspect of @CBP's operation.

We must stop them for good. END.