'Walls only serve to push migrants into more remote areas, increasing their chances of death,' said the New York Democrat. 'It is a cruel policy.'
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a sharp message for President Joe Biden on his administration's decision this week to waive federal protections that will allow for more speedy construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall section first proposed by former president Donald Trump: Don't.'The Biden administration was not required to waive several environmental laws to expedite the building of the border wall,' Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement on Thursday.
Laiken Jordahl, southwest conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity, said it was 'disheartening to see President Biden stoop to this level' in order to 'build ineffective wildlife-killing border walls' that international advocates say also violate human rights.Biden on Thursday argued from the Oval Office that he had no choice but to fast-track the construction.'The money was appropriated for the border wall.
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