Border Wall Construction Is Literally Blowing Up Site of Native American Burial Grounds, Lawmaker Says
Although Trump’s border wall cannot be built on the Native American reservation because it is private land, the burial sites are located on public land right next to the reservation, according to CBS News.Court Gives Trump the Okay to Spend $3.6 Billion in Military Funds on His Mexico Border WallA new section of the Mexico border wall stands in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Lukeville, Arizona, on Jan. 7.
Grijalva also wrote in his letter to the DHS that the Trump administration has been “irresponsible” in its powers under a post-9/11 legistlation called the REAL ID Act which allows the skirting of environmental laws in the name of national security. “This administration continues to use its waiver authority at an unprecedented and irresponsible rate: of the 21 times the waiver has been enacted since 2005, 16 of those instances have occurred in the last two and a half years,” Grijalva wrote.
In the widely shared video posted on his Twitter account on Sunday, Grijalva, a Democrat and Trump critic, said the president “blew up a sacred Native American hill on public land to build his racist wall.”. “The ancestries of our Native American communities are being torn apart by this administration, all for a pointless border wall. This is an outrage.”I just got back from the border.Watch my new update and join the growing movement to stop the wall.
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