Border Wall = Environmental Disaster

I find this as one of the most important wildlife issues of the decade. Actually I find this as important as the drilling in ANWR or the eco mess created at Yucca Mountain. It is a very ignorant mentaliity to think that a 700 mile steel concrete wall will have no impact on the ecosystem or endangered wildlife. The Bush Administration has waivered over 30 environemtal laws to construct the wall. Thats right, the governemnt is violating laws to supposively enforce one. Most undocumented workers come into this country through temporary visas and over stay their visit. This wall will do nothing except bring more migrant deaths to people stranded in the desert, waste hundreds of billions of tax payer money, destroy eco-systems, deplete wildlife and most likely bring animal extinction. It is clear that as long as Mexican and Central American people are living in poverty, that the American economy is in need of low cost labor, and that laws continue to be restrictive then illegal immigration will be inevitable. The 20 billion dollars that the U.S. has spent on militarizing the border in the past decade has had no appreciable effect on immigration levels, but it has caused thousands of deaths and untold human suffering. That's 20 billion dollars that could have been spent on education, foster care, healthcare, alternative energy, or any other productive cause. From a conservative point of view, building a fence and trying to prevent immigration is the last thing from being a fiscal conservative. The cost of building and maintaining a double set of steel fences along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border as much as $49 billion over the expected 25-year life span of the fence, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. Even if the fence is built it won't do a thing to solve the problems leading to illegal immigration along the southern border. If people are in need they will find a way to cross the border. History has proven that with the Berlin wall, Korea, and other instances in the past. Not only is this kind of policy expensive with regards to money but it has also cost thousands of innocent lives. According to Princeton University Professor, Philippe Legrain, "More than ten times as many migrants are recorded as having died on the U.S. border with Mexico over the past ten years than were killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall during its twenty-eight year existence -- and many believe the true number of deaths along the US -- Mexican border is much higher than the official figures". The number of innocent people dying will only rise as long as the American government continues to build this New Berlin Wall along the Southern border. America is allegedly trying to spread democracy and freedom to other parts of the world, yet, liberty in its very own country is diminishing. How can one call a country, with a wall along its border, a free nation? I believe most of the national enivronmental groups are avoiding this issue because they don't want to lose membership or donations by touching the issue of immigration. A true enivronmentalist would stand up against this attrocity being comitted towards animal life. I think its about high time that Earth First or even the ELF come down to the southern border.



Some interviews by Steev Hise. Other footage is from an episode of Democracy Now, congressional hearings, and the documentary "Earthlings".

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[thiswebsiteesux]

Walls aren't built to keep people out they are built to keep people in and cut off from supplies from the outside world while the people inside the wall are destroyed. This is known as genocide this is nothing new if you would have studied history you'd know this. goodbye america

[goingemoguy]

The wall is genocide for both human and mother earth

[GeauxNOSaints]

Even if the environmental warnings are true, it's a reasonable trade-off. Lose some fish and birds but also remove the ongoing waste product generated and deposited in the U.S. by millions of people who have no business being north of Calexico. People talk about the environment all the time, but little mention is made of the extra car exhaust and waste product in this country that results from the presence of millions of illegal aliens and their offspring.

[goingemoguy]

To GeauxNOSaints

"little mention is made of the extra car exhaust and waste product in this country that results from the presence of millions of illegal aliens and their offspring."

May I remind you that it is conservatives who oppose abortion and homosexuality. Your side is the one for overpopulation. Also these problems are the result of the american lifestyle not population. There are countries who have more people but cause less damage.

[apachebutterfly]

The wall is anti-wild life, it's anti-human, it's anti native

[LaMamaChida]

You are completely right.

[wwefanworld]

This has got to be the biggest load of Illegal Propaganda I ever saw in my life. This makes me want to kill whoever made this.

[copperstatekid]

I just posted some information regarding the ecological disaster in Souther Arizona. The reports I cite show the staggering amount of filth and none one seems to care about this area. Where is the outcry over the destruction of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument , or the San Pedro River National Riparian Conservation Area that was created in 1988? Where are the ecologists sounding the alarm? This lands, even though they are desert, are fragile ecosystems being decimated by illegals!

[copperstatekid]

Part 2-Illegal aliens leave tons of trash and human excrement, bicycles, clothing, papers, backpacks, drugs, plastic bags, water jugs, burned/disabled vehicles and they are tremendously affecting the enviornment. Don't take my word for it-Google BLM Arizona-Click on Information Center-Click on Newsroom-Click on "Impact of Undocumented Immigrants on Federal Lands in Southeastern Arizona-final click and you'll see several years worth of reports broken down by each park, etc. READ IT!

[copperstatekid]

Part 1-This is crap. You want to see what is happening in Arizona to the environment and the devastation of the fragile ecology in the Sonoran desert? Most of the areas that illegals, coyotes (human smugglers) and drug mules (those who pack drugs in on their backs) cross are wildlife reserves, Bureau of Land Managment lands, National Parks and Riparian Reserves on hundreds of illegal foot trails and illegal roads. We are told to stay away because it isn't safe to use our public lands. See Part 2

[laziosniper]

then go invent a system to depollute the environments of all the war zones created by america across the globe....

[gersain12345678]

America a land of free wath do they mean by that BS ??

[gersain12345678]

then u go clean all the garbage the that the american people leave in mexico when the go in spring vacations

[lilbeezy4utoo]

And 20 percent of worlds garbage by USA.

[cowboybill117]

Your so concerned about the environment get some garbage bags and go clean uo the over 25 million tons of trash the illegals left in the desert.

[thewalldoc]

Someone climbs the Border fence along the Mexican border right in front of our film crew, a igniting a border patrol pursuit immediately.

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