Add your name: Tell your senators to reject funding for Trump's border wall

Friend, Congress is swiftly approaching [a nasty budget fight and possible shutdown]( over Donald Trump's demand for billions of dollars to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The budget needs to pass before December 7 to avoid a shutdown. To have any chance of building their nonsense wall, Republicans have to pass funding before Democrats take over the majority in the House on January 3. This means the upcoming budget deadline is effectively the last chance for Trump’s wall. Let’s put a huge dent in his plans. [Sign and send a petition to your senators: Reject any end-of-year funding bill that supports construction of a border wall.]( [SIGN AND SEND A PETITION]( A wall along the U.S.-Mexico border threatens human rights and comes at a high cost to border communities, taxpayers, wildlife, and the environment: - Building a wall threatens lives and businesses. Today, barriers and walls cover more than 650 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. In Nogales, Sonora, [the wall contributed to severe flooding]( that buried downtown homes and businesses underneath six feet of water, drowning two people and costing millions of dollars in damages. In Texas, a wall blocks access to the Rio Grande River. Thousands of migrants have lost their lives as the border wall funnels them deeper and deeper into harsh and remote terrain. - Building a wall is prohibitively expensive. Trump is demanding that at least $5 billion in taxpayer money is allocated to begin building. The construction of the entire wall is estimated to cost upwards of [$21.6 billion](, not including hundreds of millions each year in maintenance. Similar to the Republican tax scam, the wall would be funded by exploding the deficit and cutting spending for disaster relief, health care, education, emergency response, Social Security, and more. - Building a wall endangers the ecosystem. The border is host to [a diverse array of threatened, endangered and rare species]( and it contains millions of acres of public lands, such as Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Big Bend National Park, Coronado National Forest and Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. [Sign and send a petition to your senators: Reject any end-of-year funding bill that supports construction of a border wall.]( [SIGN AND SEND A PETITION]( The border wall would be a monument to the racism, xenophobia, and hate that we, our families, and our neighbors have endured at the hands of Trump's administration. Building it would hand Trump and his ilk a major victory and further encourage their attacks on our communities. Hardline Republicans are determined to extract wins before the new Congress is sworn in and they lose control of the House of Representatives. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has [said]( Democrats are willing to pass $1.6 billion in funding. It's clear our senators need to hear from us before these negotiations go any further. We cannot allow a monument of hate to be built on our watch. [Sign and send a petition to your senators: Reject any end-of-year funding bill that supports construction of a border wall.]( [SIGN AND SEND A PETITION]( Keep fighting, Monique Teal, Daily Kos Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612. Sent via [ActionNetwork.org](. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Daily Kos, please [click here](.