A wall is extremely expensive for the American taxpayer, is ineffective in remote geographic areas like ours, and is highly destructive to the religious, cultural and environmental resources on which our members rely and which make our ancestral lands sacred to our people.
Ned Norris Jr. criticizes the border wall's cost and its impact on sacred lands.
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The Nation is deeply appreciative of the attention that this subcommittee is paying to the serious issues that surround the frighteningly broad authority that the Secretary of Homeland Security has been given.
We will never agree to a wall that is being built. We will never agree to what is being built now and this desecration of our sacred sites.
We've historically lived in this area from time immemorial. We feel very strongly that this particular wall will desecrate this area forever. I would compare it to building a wall over your parents' graveyards. It would have the same…
We are also deeply concerned about the authority that allows Homeland Security to waive all statutory protections in the name of expediting border wall construction.