Trump's border wall plan hits snag as congressman backs environmental suit

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Trump's border wall plan hits snag as congressman backs environmental suit

Raúl Grijalva of Arizona joins Center for Biological Diversity
in call for environmental analysis that could delay any
construction for several years

Julia Carrie Wong
Thursday 13 April 2017 00.54 BST

A US congressman and environmental group have filed the first lawsuit targeting Donald Trump’s plan to build a 30ft wall on the US-Mexico border.

The suit, brought by Congressman Raúl M Grijalva of Arizona and the Center for Biological Diversity in the US district court for Arizona, seeks to require the government to undertake a comprehensive environmental impact analysis before beginning construction.

Such a review would probably take several years to complete, delaying indefinitely the fulfillment of one of Trump’s signature campaign promises.

“It will take a significant amount of time to thoroughly analyze (the impacts of the wall), and that’s the point,” said Randy Serraglio, a spokesman for the Center for Biological Diversity.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/12/border-wall-lawsuit-environment-trump-raul-grijalva

[democratisphere]

1. Delay construction of the wall for several years, then he will be gone, gone, gone!

[GP6971]

2. On the plus side he's

a democrat. Hope he gets a bump out of this.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. It made no sense to take that "out of the blue" stump speech shit seriously and start planning to

actually build that stupid thing. I blame assholes like McConnell & Co for encouraging that nonsense.