Dear friends, I’m touching base with an update on border wall construction in the Sky Islands, impacts to our Border Wildlife Study, and actions to take below. For the past... Read more »| Sky Island Alliance
A legal scholar argues that Trump's lawless border policies threaten to undermine civil liberties for all of us| Salon.com
What do liberal Democrats do, if, in a free and fair election, U.S. voters throw them out and replace them with people our elites routinely equate with fascists and Nazis? We may be about to find out. “Make no mistake — democracy is on the ballot for us all.” So ... Read more...| Patrick J. Buchanan – Official Website
By Michael Bobelian – The Washington Post In the long run, history will validate Donald Trump’s stand on a border wall,” Patrick Buchanan, the former Nixon and Reagan White House aide and Republican presidential candidate, wrote in 2019. “Why? Because mass migration from the global South … is the real ... Read more...| Patrick J. Buchanan – Official Website
With new border wall construction starting this month in the Tucson Sector, wildlife will undergo further habitat fragmentation across the San Rafael Valley and Huachuca Mountains. Our research shows that border wall, with 6-inch bollards separated by just 4-inch spaces between bollards, stops 86% of wildlife on the ground from crossing the border. | skyislandalliance.org
Water sources like springs are imperiled along the border in the San Rafael Valley, due to impending construction of the Trump administration’s 30-foot-high border wall. It is estimated that 500,000 gallons of local groundwater will be pumped for every mile of wall built and will be used to create cement footers for the wall and to keep dust down. This will impact springs by drawing on shared groundwater — putting wildlife and native plants at risk from reduced water access. | skyislandalliance.org