Borderlands

Borderlands

Borderlands

Walls and barriers have already been constructed across more than 650 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. These barriers block wildlife migration, cause flooding and damage pristine wild lands, including wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, and national forests. Sierra Club Borderlands advocates for real solutions, such as comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship, that address the root causes of complex border problems.


Border wall construction has blocked access to food and water resources and fragmented animal populations, leaving them vulnerable to genetic isolation, inbreeding and disease.

About Us

We are a coalition representing civil rights, faith, environmental, indigenous, LGBT, and border communities working together to protect the community, culture, land, wildlife, and environmental well-being of the border region.

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Real ID Waiver Authority Compromises Our Borderlands

Real ID Waiver Authority

The unprecedented power granted to the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) by Section 102 of the Real ID Act has been used multiple times to "waive in their entirety" dozens of federal laws.

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A growing coalition of organizations across the country that have publicly opposed efforts to expand or replace the border wall.

Our Coalition

A list of local governments and organizations that are against the Wall.

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Film: Ay Mariposa

Ay Mariposa tells a story of La Mariposa, Zulema, and Marianna–three characters in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas whose lives are upended by plans to build a US-Mexico border wall. Watch the Film.

Photo Exhibit: Lens on the Border

Vibrant images of the Southwest landscape, the people, and the communities that have been impacted by walls and would be impacted by more border walls. See the Exhibit.

Storymap: Embattled Borderlands

The borderlands harbor some of North America’s rarest wild species and oldest human cultures. See storymap.

Support the Borderlands Project

Every dollar of your tax-deductible donation will be used to help stop further destruction from border policies and to enhance protections to ensure habitat resiliency in light of climate change impacts.

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February 26, 2019

Today, in a 245-182 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution to overturn Trump’s emergency declaration that would move funds from critical national security budgets to build border walls. See the Sierra Club’s letter on the…

February 22, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX), along with more than 222 co-sponsors, introduced a resolution to reverse Trump’s emergency declaration to build a border wall.

February 19, 2019

WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union, Sierra Club, ACLU of Texas, and ACLU of Northern California today filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s emergency powers declaration to secure funds to build a wall along the southern border.…

February 7, 2019

San Diego, CA-- Moments ago, the Department of Homeland Security announced that the federal government will waive more than 30 laws to replace border wall and add secondary wall in southern California. The protections waived include, but are not…

February 4, 2019

Arizona/ Texas-- Last night, AP reported that the Trump Administration began preparation for the construction of concrete border walls in the Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and deployed miles of razor wire to place on border barriers in Nogales, Arizona.…

Photos courtesy of kristaschlyer.com