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LetMyPeopleVote

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Thu Aug 26, 2021, 12:56 AM Aug 2021

DHS failed to take 'hard look' at enviro impacts of Trump's border wall - judge

TFG cut corners on building the moronic wall




A federal judge in Tucson, Arizona has ruled that the Department of Homeland Security arbitrarily failed to take a "hard look" at the environmental impacts involved in the construction of former President Donald Trump's signature wall on a 50-mile wide corridor at the border with Mexico.

Senior U.S. District Judge Cindy Jorgenson ruled on Monday that DHS and its agency Customs and Border Protection violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in a partial victory for the Center for Biological Diversity and U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, who had sued. The judge, however, declined the plaintiffs' request for an order to produce a more comprehensive environmental analysis now, reasoning that the activities had not produced "demonstrated adverse environmental impacts."

The ruling of the lawsuit that was filed under President Donald Trump comes after his successor put an end to his signature border wall project.
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DHS failed to take 'hard look' at enviro impacts of Trump's border wall - judge (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 OP
Those portions that got flooded out -- will they be abandoned? Hekate Aug 2021 #1
Spite fence is a perfect description of that piece of garbage! ShazzieB Aug 2021 #2
"spite fence" is perfect! brer cat Aug 2021 #3

Hekate

(90,648 posts)
1. Those portions that got flooded out -- will they be abandoned?
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 01:08 AM
Aug 2021

Humans are not the only creatures who migrate along the border. Trump’s spite fence is nothing short of criminal.

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