Indigenous Group Sues to Stop Big Bend Border Wall on Religious Grounds
The lawsuit seeks an immediate injunction, arguing that CBP construction and surveying activities in Big Bend violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Since 1954
The lawsuit seeks an immediate injunction, arguing that CBP construction and surveying activities in Big Bend violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Activists and landowners called on Rio Grande Valley residents to resist construction of a wall and protect property rights and wildlife.
Environmental and human rights groups say the agency should send notices in Spanish and hold at least three public forums in the Rio Grande Valley.
The new mural is a small binational gesture reminding those who reside in the margins that they are not forgotten.
The river has long suffered from pollution and overuse, but 33 new miles of border wall could be the “last nail in the coffin,” environmentalists say.
You won't find it on a highway map, but a 250-year-old village on the Rio Grande is internationally famous among birders. Will it survive Trump's wall?
“Everyone should care when the federal government thinks it can do whatever it wants on your private property.”
“Whistleblowers are the nation’s first line of defense,” says watchdog group.
The records give the most in-depth picture to date of where and how the Trump administration plans to build the president’s “big, beautiful wall.”
The 15 segments of wall would tear through three wildlife areas in the Rio Grande Valley and put more homes and other structures in jeopardy than previously known, the documents show.