House Committee Members highlight environmental impact of Biden Border Crisis
Fri, May 28th 2021 @ 8:33 am EDT by Chris Chmielenski
Republicans on the House Committee for Natural Resources hosted a forum this week to discuss the environmental impacts of Pres. Biden's ongoing border crisis. In each of the last two months, 170,000 illegal border crossers have been apprehended by Border Patrol agents, not to mention the countless number of individuals who crossed illegally and undetected.
As the GOP Committee Members pointed out, the border crisis, fueled by the Biden Administration's relaxed enforcement and asylum rules, is leaving behind a trail of garbage and destruction to natural areas.
"Despite President Biden's purported commitment to protecting our environment, his immigration policies will lead to the degradation of our border lands, including federally protected areas. When people illegally enter our country, they do not respect federal designations or the restrictions applied to those areas. As the Biden administration sets records for the number of people attempting to illegally enter our country, we can only expect exponentially more harms to our public lands."
-- Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.)
https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/house-committee-members-highlight-environmental-impact-biden-border-crisis
