On June 23, President Trump flew to Yuma, Arizona, to celebrate the completion of 200 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. “It stopped COVID,” he said, failing to mention that our state recently recorded 58,000 cases and 1300 deaths from the disease. An earlier fabrication was Trump’s repeated claim that...
In February, President Trump claimed that reinforcing the border wall would prevent the virus from entering the U.S., but COVID-19 was already beginning to spread in the states. “I don’t think the virus checks on borders.” Tim Steller, The Arizona Daily Star Before the novel coronavirus claimed its...
Halt the Border Wall Construction’s Desiccation and Desecration of Quitobaquito Springs, the Greatest Oasis of Hope in the Borderlands Twenty-five nationally prominent ecologists, hydrologists, botanists and archaeologists demand that Homeland Security cease any activities that further threaten the destruction of Quitobaquito oasis in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. They claim...
An “oasis of hope” in the Borderlands As conservation biologists and hydrologists who have collectively worked on the border at Quitobaquito Springs in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument for over four decades, we wish to express our deep concerns about one of the most biodiverse and culturally significant oasis habitat...
The COVID-19 pandemic is playing out as a tragedy around the world, and acutely in the United States. This catastrophic scenario predictably stimulates the finer instincts of many people—the reaching out to help others, to share what little they may have with communities that are being severely stressed by the...