The Trump administration is planning to build 25 miles of new border wall in the critical wildlife corridor of the San Rafael Valley.
Erick Meza, with the Sierra Club, says that the valley is Arizona’s last unwalled major biodiversity hotspot in the border region.
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And that has a broad impact — from tourism to drought to allergies.
