Posted on 09/07/2023 9:50:14 PM PDT by KingofZion
Barriers constructed along the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration caused "significant damage and destruction" to the environment and cultural sites, the Government Accountability Office said...
The watchdog's 72-page document says former President Donald Trump's efforts to deliver on a campaign promise — to construct more than 450 miles of border barrier panels along the southwest border to deter illegal crossings and activity — hampered the migration of endangered species, eroded federal lands, disrupted water flow and "irreparably" damaged sacred tribal sites.
As they prepared to construct the wall in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, Trump administration officials waived laws to protect cultural and natural resources and installed more than half of the wall's mileage on federal lands.
Barrier panels extended, for example, through Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge and Coronado National Forest and parts of a national wildlife refuge in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
According to the report, 81% of the panels' mileage replaced existing barriers.
In some instances, narrower pedestrian barriers replaced vehicle barriers with wider openings, obstructing the passage of wildlife, including endangered species, the report said.
The construction has also damaged native vegetation and disrupted natural water flows, which in turn has "threatened and endangered" fish species and affected drainage during heavy rain, it said.
The GAO noted that in addition to its environmental impacts, installation of parts of the wall has also harmed historic sites and sites some tribes consider sacred.
A sacred site was "irreparably damaged" in Arizona when contractors used explosives to clear a path to expand an existing patrol road, the report said, citing Tohono O’odham Nation officials.
Many saguaro cacti in Arizona, which are sacred to the tribe and found only in the Sonoran Desert, were also destroyed...
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(2) Environmental damage to a few cactus plants? Worse that all the waste dumped by illegals and the dozens of narco-trafficker tunnels? Riiight.
The amount of environmental damage from the open borders has also been enormous over the years - if that was halted, do those walls sitting there really cause more? Seriously doubt it.
U.S. culture has been severely damaged. Any concetns over that NBC?
That very incomplete wall has caused far less damage than the open border and millions of illegal aliens invading across it.
The Biden Regime is making it all up, just like the Dems made of the dossier and the Russia influence hoax.
But illegals streaming over the border leaving waste and detritus all over is good for the environment apparently.
Ugh.
Of course the native tribes are looking for a payoff and claim the Wall damaged their “sacred sites”.
Remind me of the Alberta Indian tribes who hired oil industry geologists to help them locate their “sacred sites”.
“Trump’s border wall caused ‘significant damage and destruction’ to environmental and cultural resources “
This will REALLY energize the NeverTrumpers (Ukraine War supporters)!!!
“Remind me of the Alberta Indian tribes who hired oil industry geologists to help them locate their “sacred sites”.”
Is there even an acre of land in North America that IS NOT an ‘ancient burial ground’ for the engines?
Barriers constructed along the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration caused “significant damage and destruction” to the environment and cultural sites, the Government Accountability Office said...
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Bull Cheese. I bet the bonehead bean counters at the GAO have never totalled up the billions of dollars of significant damages that 60 million illegals have done to our country.
Just substitute “Illegals” for all this propaganda.
How come you have to drag Ukraine into every thread not about it?
Not as much as the private jets flown by NBC execs.
The lack of a border wall is causing far more damage, environmentally and socially.
I wonder how many of these tribes’ maidens have been violated by illegals passing through? Not that the media would report it. The media has never given a crap about these tribes before, nor will they when the election is over.
Don’t care. Build the wall. Stop crying about foolishness. Animals have migrated for millennia and changed habitats and patterns just as long. This is just BS to give Joe an excuse to remove the wall. The only thing that matters is national security.
Malarkey!
All of this is starting to read like bad fiction.
...yeah.... The Cartel smuggling routes.
Nothing But Cesspool.
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