Sign this petition to condemn environmental destruction on behalf of racism and ego, and urge universities to take responsibility for their graduates by publucly condemning these acts. Otherwise, we will have to assume that any student who wants to go to one of these universities can be indoctrinated into racist and destructive ideology. 

Elaine Duke became the Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on July 31, 2017. She was previously sworn in as the seventh Deputy Secretary of DHS on April 10, 2017.  Acting Secretary Duke received her B.S. in Business Management from New Hampshire College, now Southern New Hampshire University, and her M.B.A. from Chaminade University of Honolulu.

Trump just waived 26 environmental laws—and two religious freedom laws—to build his wall.
A three-mile section of border fencing in California will be constructed without federal protections for clean water and air, endangered species, and historic sites, according to a notice posted Tuesday in the Federal Register. Elaine Duke, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in the notice that the “El Centro Sector,” which covers the eastern half of California’s border with Mexico, is “an area of high illegal entry for which there is an immediate need to construct border barriers and roads.”

The area is also home to wildlife habitat—including some threatened and endangered species—as well as farmland, desert vegetation, wetlands, archaeological resources, and prehistoric sites, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection environmental assessment of the area in 2012. But none of that will get in the way of Trump’s wall. Here are all the laws that have been waived, per Tuesday’s notice.

The National Environmental Policy Act

The Endangered Species Act

The Clean Water Act

The National Historic Preservation Act

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act

The Migratory Bird Conservation Act

The Clean Air Act

The Archeological Resources Protection Act

The Paleontological Resources Preservation Act

The Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988

The Safe Drinking Water Act

The Noise Control Act

The Solid Waste Disposal Act

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

The Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act

The Antiquities Act

The Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act

The Farmland Protection Policy Act

The Federal Land Policy and Management Act

Section 10 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939

The National Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956

The Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act

The Administrative Procedure Act

The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899

The Eagle Protection Act

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

The American Indian Religious Freedom Act

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act

With these waivers, this section of fencing can be built on top of archeological sites, historic and cultural sites, endangered species habitat, and drinking water sources. Construction vehicles and equipment can emit as much as they want into the air and make as much noise as they want. If construction happens to threaten Native American religious sites, that won’t be a problem, either.