Editorial: Coordinated social & environmental response needed to damage of Trump's wall

President Biden has pledged that there will “not be another foot” of the Trump border wall built. But his first weeks in office demand more than stopping construction of the towering barricade that has fueled humanitarian crises and ravaged the desert environment.

Border towns from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Coast have suffered disproportionately, sacrificed to policies that ignore lives and livelihoods in favor of a dubious 450-mile long monument to presidential hubris.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/opinion/border-wall-trump.html

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