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Environmentalists are alarmed by what the construction of a 20-mile stretch of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border may mean to animals in the area.
26 federal laws have been swept aside for a new section of border wall to be built - right through a wildlife preserve, farmland, and small towns which will likely be affected by the project.
Residents in rural Starr County, Texas, tell Border Report they're shocked and scared and the county judge says "disappointed," after the Biden administration this week waived environmental laws in order to more quickly build federal border wall here.
Residents in rural Starr County, Texas, tell Border Report they're shocked and scared and the county judge says "disappointed," after the Biden administration this week waived environmental laws in order to more quickly build federal border wall here.
Center for Biological Diversity: STARR COUNTY, Texas — The Biden administration announced today that for the first time it will waive environmental, public health and cultural resource protection laws to fast-track construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Texas. The administration says it will take “immediate action to construct barriers and roads” along the border, including through the fragile Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge and neighboring lands.