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On the recordApril 27, 2016
The border wall has had high human cost and increasingly negative impacts on species and ecosystems, which know no borders.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva highlights the environmental and humanitarian costs of the border wall.

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