Area residents thought their land was safe after Trump’s wall plans were foiled, only to discover Biden’s plans to build more
Nayda Alvarez, a vocal opponent of the border wall, near the Rio Grande, which runs alongside her property in Rio Grande City, Texas.Nayda Alvarez, a vocal opponent of the border wall, near the Rio Grande, which runs alongside her property in Rio Grande City, Texas.
“I felt backstabbed … Biden did say ‘not another foot’,” Alvarez said, as she sat in her yard amid rural tranquility, where birds were singing and fish occasionally jumped out of the water. The sites for the proposed new sections are varied, including farmland, ranches and wildlife refuges, and locations in close proximity to neighborhoods and historic cemeteries.Jim Chapman, an environmental activist and president of Friends of the Wildlife Corridor, a non-profit based in Alamo, Texas, explained that when an area floods, the wall-like sections deflect flooding intoand even if the barrier is constructed of steel slats they get so clogged with debris they act like a wall.
Starr county’s Salineño wildlife preserve is owned by a non-profit organization. Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott’s office unsuccessfully tried surveying the riverside property earlier this year for border wall construction as part of the state’s controversial border enforcement initiative Operation Lone Star. The authorities were
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