Residents and farmers say contractors have tapped border aquifers that threaten water supply for those nearby
Construction crews building a border wall in New Mexico were ordered to stop drilling new wells after ranchers said that pumping groundwater to produce concrete could threaten their livestock amid a severe drought.
The order comes as crews across the southern border race to complete one of Donald Trump’s highest domestic priorities – barriers that span four states and received over $46bn in federal funding. Controversies have sprouted up in Texas and California, and border-town residents and environmentalists have reported a wide variety of issues with construction.
At a public meeting in July, ranchers said they were noticing unmonitored tapping of border aquifers that threatened the water for those nearby.
The wall is useless.
We know how to build a border wall that works, there’s one between North and South Korea, and there was one between East and West Berlin. That’s what an effective wall looks like.
The walls they build on the Southern border of the U.S. look nothing like that because they’re just political theater props. It’s just cronyism.
Also, parts of the border are a fucking river, so that part of the wall is inside the United States border, meaning that I don’t actually have to cross the wall to request asylum. And that leaves out the part where there are actually whole ranches and like a golf course on the other side of the wall because people didn’t want the wall going through their land.
korea also has the DMZ, and millions of mines too.