BIDEN IS EXPANDING THE BORDER WALL. BUT SOUTH TEXANS ARE FIGHTING BACK.

“Building a wall across our entire southern border is impractical and an immense waste of resources that could instead be used to fund a more humane and robust immigration system with expanded legal channels,” Faisal Al-Juburi, a spokesperson from The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), tells Somos. “It is clear that building a wall or banning asylum will not stop people from arriving at the border. And if our government continues to push and turn asylum-seekers away, they will be forced to take more extreme measures in the pursuit of safety.”

“President Biden must reverse course before more lives are needlessly put at risk,” Al-Juburi adds. Read more at Refinery29.