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"This correlates with why some ponds at the Refuge are void of water."
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The lawsuit claims that authorities hurled "racial epithets that should not be repeated here — except to note that 'sand n**ger' was the mildest..."
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Alex Murillo served his country. Then he was kicked out.
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The vice president boasted of economic gains among the Latino community in Arizona as an impeachment inquiry charged on in Washington.
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Existing barriers already damage the surrounding desert. A bigger, taller wall, environmentalists fear, would be even worse.
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In Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, more than five miles of double wire mesh fencing, i.e. pedestrian fencing, and some 25 miles of vehicle barriers stretch across the park's southern border with Mexico. The Trump administration plans to intensify those walls by replacing them with steel bollards, and construction is slated to begin August 21.
Environmentalists and federal land-management agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have said that the proposed new wall would be even more detrimental to wildlife and the environment than the existing barriers already are. On a trip to the border last Thursday, we documented the devastation wrought by the current wall on wildlife and the surrounding environment in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
