An Arizona rancher sued DHS, claiming migrants destroyed his property and contaminated his land
A federal judge ruled in favor of a southern border rancher who had argued that the Biden administration had violated environmental law in its “haste to reverse its predecessor’s border policies” in 2021.
An Arizona rancher, Steven Smith, was part of the lawsuit, Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform et al. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, challenging the Biden administration. The suit claimed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had failed to conduct a mandatory review required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) before halting border wall construction, a key Trump-era project.
Under NEPA, a federal agency must conduct an Environmental Assessment to determine whether a federal action has the potential to cause significant effects on the human environment, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
After a two-day bench trial, Judge Trevor McFadden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling on Friday that Smith “suffered concrete and particularized injuries” as a result of DHS not meeting the requirements of NEPA.
The Biden-Harris administration took a huge dump on America and Americans and left it for Republicans to clean up and sanitize. It won’t be pretty and it won’t be cheap.