BREAKING: Biden admin will waive 26 laws to build border walls through South Texas wildlife refuge & nearby communities.

Biden's DHS will take “immediate action" to speed wall construction, casting aside protections for endangered species, clean water, Indigenous graves & more.



Our reaction: "Every acre of habitat left in the Rio Grande Valley is irreplaceable. President Biden’s cynical decision to destroy a wildlife refuge and seal the beautiful Rio Grande behind a grotesque border wall must be stopped." biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-r…

.@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

Organ Pipe #borderwall update: Well drillers spotted within 5 miles of Quitobaquito Spring. DHS is drilling wells to extract precious desert groundwater to mix concrete for wall construction.

These reckless actions imperil Quitobaquito & all species that depend on it. Sources say each foot of border wall will require 2 cubic yards of concrete. A yard of concrete takes 39 gallons of water. This means each mile of wall = 411,840 gallons of water.

For the planned 68 miles of wall, DHS would suck up 28 MILLION gallons of desert groundwater.