Another reason not to build the Wall - walling out wildlife

[Beaverhausen]

Don't Let Them Wall Out the Wild

Congress could authorize a 700-mile wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, threatening our most precious desert wildlife and wild lands. Help stop the "walling out of wildlife."


Even for a jaguar, seven hundred miles is awfully far. But that's how long the wall is that some in Congress want to build along the U.S. Mexico border -- right across lands crucial to jaguar recovery in the U.S.

Help stop the 700-mile wall! Contact your U.S. Senators today and urge them to vote against any immigration bill that would authorize construction of the wall.

The borderlands where the multi-billion-dollar wall would be built contain some of America's most threatened public lands.

These areas include national parks, monuments, wildlife refuges, forests, and wilderness areas. They are also havens for an incredible diversity of wildlife, including the only jaguars in America, wolves, bald eagles, and the highly endangered Sonoran pronghorn.

The wall would stretch all the way from California to Texas, dividing crucial habitat for the jaguar and other endangered wildlife. Its construction would also be exempted from key environmental and public health protections, further threatening sensitive areas and the wildlife that lives there.

So far, the Senate has resisted including the 700-mile wall in its border policy proposals. But, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is expected to introduce an amendment to the Senate bill that would allow the wall to move forward. We need your help to make sure this terrible wall never becomes a reality.

Defenders estimates that the wall will cost an estimated $4 billion! That's $4 billion of our tax dollars that could be better spent on high-tech surveillance and communications equipment, enforcement and other more effective border security tactics that would also do less damage to our wildlife and treasured public lands.

Urge your Senator to stand up for our vanishing wildlife and sensitive borderlands. Take action now!

National security is important, but we don’t have to sacrifice our nation’s treasured wildlife, parks, and refuges to protect our borders. Thanks for standing up for sensible border security.

[pinto]

1. Hadn't thought about the movement of wildlife. Thanks. Link?

[Beaverhausen]

2. here you go

http://www.defenders.org/

[pinto]

3. Thanks...

[Danascot]

4. Molly Ivins Debunks the Fence Idea in 30 Seconds

"Anyway, it was ’83 or some year right around there when we held The Fence climbing contest. See, people talked about building The Fence back then, too. The Fence along the Mexican border. To keep Them out.

At the time, the proposal was quite specific—a 17-foot cyclone fence with bob wire at the top. So a test fence was built at Terlingua, and the First-Ever Terlingua Memorial Over, Under or Through Mexican Fence Climbing Contest took place. Prize: a case of Lone Star beer. Winning time: 30 seconds.

I tell this story to make the one single point about the border and immigration we know to be true: The Fence will not work. No fence will work."

[Nevernose]

5. That wall is so fucking insane on so many fucking levels

I don't even know where to begin!
:argh:

[rodeodance]

6. hate to say this, the the wall idea is gaining support in Congress. Both

sides are pushing the need for security and the Wall is the answer! Damm

[guinivere]

7. *sigh* The wall is a horrible idea.

I suppose someone will scream that the "Mexican wildlife" is eating up all the food that the "American wildlife" needs. :eyes:

[Beaverhausen]

8. oh god. this is crazy

:mad:

[Cleita]

10. This isn't the security we need. They are ignoring

the real problem because they started it and now they have created a whole new bunch of terrorists that hate Americans, and they don't know what to do about it. So a wall makes them look like they are doing something.

What about the Rio Grande? Which side are they going to put the wall on? Or will they just shoot anyone who tries to swim across? I've seen the river. It's not an easy border to wall off.

[pinto]

9. kick.