Testimony on Proposed Yuma Border Barrier Projects

I would like to express my deep concern and opposition to further extension of the border wall from the Colorado River eastward toward the Tinajas Altas Mountains, after personally seeing the damage done by Homeland Security’s construction contractors to other sacred sites, shrines and burials at Quitobaquito Springs. There will...

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Testimony of Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan, for the House Committee on Appropriations and its Subcommittee on Homeland Security

My name is Gary Paul Nabhan and I am an Ecumenical Franciscan Brother who has lived and worked on the U.S./Mexico border as a seasonal park ranger, farmer, conservational biologist and facilitator of interfaith and intertribal gatherings since 1978. I live now live in Patagonia, Arizona 18 miles from the...

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