Press Release: Maps Will Show Fence Locations

April 2, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has shown little respect for human life and wildlife by waiving environmental laws to build border walls. We denounce the waiver.

For 14 years, each foot of wall built has moved the annual migration of people further from safe passages in urban areas, yet approximately the same numbers of people have successfully crossed each of those years. The attempt to build walls to control migration is fatally flawed because it increases migrant deaths.

Wildlife suffers because of wall-building, and the construction of maintenance and surveillance roads adjacent to the walls creates a scar on delicate environments which will not heal.

The mission of Humane Borders is twofold: to provide humanitarian assistance to the migrants who are risking their lives crossing the Mexico-United States border and to advocate for changes in US border policies that would remove these persons from risk.

Previously, Mr. Chertoff has strenuously objected to the printing and distributing of Humane Borders warning posters that advised migrants of the danger that lay ahead of them. Humane Borders will now begin adding the locations of border fencing and the types of fencing to Humane Borders Warning Posters distributed in Mexico and Central America.

For Further Information

Rev. Robin Hoover, Ph.D.

520-360-7818

For more information, please contact us.