Tucson, AZ—Today, Donald Trump will visit the U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma to pose with border walls and Border Patrol agents. He is expected to continue pushing funding for a wall as a political prop in his extremist agenda. Trump again will likely say that billions of dollars are needed for fences, walls, sensors, agents and equipment while failing to address root causes of human migration and smuggling.
In anticipation, Dan Millis, Sierra Club Borderlands Program Coordinator issued the following statement:
“Donald Trump’s racism and misguided views on border security are not welcome here in southern Arizona. Barriers have already been imposed along more than 650 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. They’ve been a colossal waste of taxpayer money and destructive to local communities.
“Instead of solving problems along the border, walls just exacerbate flooding, destroy wildlife habitat, and fragment wildlife migration corridors.
“Trump is waiving bedrock protections for border communities, ignoring public health and the environment, and wasting U.S. taxpayer money to build a symbol of hate, fear, and racism. Border communities do not support Trump’s bigoted policies like unjust travel bans or a boondoggle border wall.”
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