The right to free expression includes the freedom to read whatever we choose. Yet state governments and local school districts have attempted to ban the books included in this report. We've fought censorship for nearly 100 years — because a government that polices what we read, polices our thought.
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The right to free expression includes the freedom to read whatever we choose. Yet state governments and local school districts have attempted to ban the books included in this report. We've fought censorship for nearly 100 years — because a government that polices what we read, polices our thought.
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The U.S. has turned away from addressing the complex causes of immigration and smuggling, and a careful consideration of the most effective ways to respond to these issues, and instead has focused myopically on enforcement and militarizing our borders.
Building walls along the southwest border has become a centerpiece of this trend. Like the overemphasis on enforcement, the border wall project is not grounded in facts. But existing border walls blight border communities, tear apart delicate border ecosystems, and redirect crossings into the most remote and treacherous areas where thousands of men, women, and children have lost their lives attempting to enter the United States in search of safety or economic opportunity.
In this report, we analyze the rationale behind border barriers, discuss the effectiveness of border walls in regards to unauthorized migration, smuggling, and national security, and illustrate the wide-ranging damages that existing walls have inflicted upon border communities, the environment, and the lives of border crossers.
The report findings are outlined below:
- Border walls do not make the U.S. safer or significantly reduce smuggling or immigration.
- Border walls continue to cause even more tremendous environmental devastation.
- Border walls have inflicted serious damage upon border communities and their economies.
- Border walls contribute to the ongoing humanitarian crisis of migrant deaths as they push migrants into more remote desert areas.
The full report with detailed breakdowns of the impacts of walls on the U.S.-Mexico border is available for download below.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 11:30am
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2019 Update – Death, Damage, and Failure: Past, Present, and Future Impacts of Walls on the U.S.-Mexico Border
ACLU Border Rights Center and Partners Release Report on Devastating Impact of Trump’s Border Wall
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