Settlement with feds will speed border wall remediation

Just hours after taking the oath of office, President Joe Biden issued the Proclamation on the Termination Of Emergency With Respect To The Southern Border Of The United States And Redirection Of Funds Diverted To Border Wall Construction. 

Now, thanks to efforts led by the Center for Biological Diversity, Animal Legal Defense Fund and Defenders of Wildlife the feds have begun to undo the damage to jaguar and ocelot habitats while courts sort the fraudsters.

“The wall and its infrastructure, including lights and roads, have carved a monstrous scar across one of the most biodiverse regions on the continent," Brian Segee, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. "Now federal agencies will have to take stock of the damage and begin the important work of trying to heal this environmental and humanitarian disaster.” Segee noted that the settlement does not cover funding for border wall construction that had been appropriated by Congress, and are still being used to build wall segments in Texas. Moreover, the settlement commits the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency to spend up to $800,000 for a study assessing wildlife impacts of border wall construction. [Can wildlife damage from border wall be repaired? Environmental groups settle lawsuit]

Even North Dakota-based Fisher Sand and Gravel conspired with the Trump Organization and its henchman, Steve Bannon to defraud the United States. Fisher Industries is a major campaign contributor to Earth hating Republicans and is being investigated for substandard work and treaty violations on the US/Mexico border.

The irony of Fisher Sand & Gravel’s 3-mile wall, with its floodlights and freshly cleared carrizo cane, with its ambitions of bike lanes and sports fields, is that it isn’t so much thwarting immigrants as beckoning them. [The Guy Who Spent $30 Million Building Trump’s Wall Is Looking for Buyers]

Montana and North Dakota have both suffered the effects of the man camps that prey on women and girls where rapes and murders committed by predatory criminals have become commonplace. Out of state laborers being housed in a New Mexico hamlet while destroying wildlife habitat for the border barrier and apparently not subject to Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham's self-quarantine order were forced out of town after a public outcry. 

Yvette Herrell is a member of the Cherokee Nation and the Republican New Mexico Representative from District 2 but her support for Herr Trump's border wall and disdain for women's rights has strained the ties to her Indigenous heritage.