January 28, 2021: Congress members tour the Arizona/Mexico border

On January 28, 2021, the Pima NRCD hosted a dinner and tour of the new wall construction near Nogales, AZ for eight members of Congress who visited the border on a three-day west-to-east tour. The previous day, the  Representatives saw the border at Sasabe. The next day, they visited the wall in Cochise County. Also on the tour were journalists including Rachel del Guidice and Chris DiSimone. Many of the attendees  posted tweets about what they saw and learned, as copied below.

We deeply appreciate these members of Congress and interested members of the media taking the time to travel to the border, see the wall and the unfinished construction first-hand, and listening to the ranchers, sheriffs and Border Patrol.


 

Featured left to right  in Congressman Biggs’s tweet above:

Jim Chilton, Arivaca Ranch, Pima Natural Resource Conservation District (NRCD) Chairman

Dr. Ted Noon, DVM, Noon Ranch, Nogales, AZ

Representative Andy Biggs, (R) AZ-05, Oversight and Reform Committee; Judiciary Committee

Representative Glenn Grothman (R) WI-06; Oversight and Reform Committee/Ranking member–Subcommittee on National Security; Committee on Education and Labor; Budget Committee

Cindy Coping, Malpais Ranch, Marana-Eloy area, AZ, Pima NRCD Supervisor

Representative Lauren Boebert, (R) CO-03;Vice chair, Congressional Western Caucus; Natural Resources Committee; Budget Committee

Bill Schock, Schock Ranch, Elgin, AZ; Supervisor, Santa Cruz NRCD; Past President–Arizona Association of Conservation Districts

Representative Warren Davidson (R) OH-08;Financial Services Committee

Representative Bob Gibbs (R) OH-07; Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and 2 others

Representative Barry Moore (R) AL-02; Committee on Agriculture

Representative Bob Good (R) VA-05; Budget Committee, Education and Labor Committee

Representative Matt Rosendale (R) MT-At Large; Natural Resources Committee; rancher from eastern MT

Representative Andrew Clyde, (R) GA-09; Oversight Committee, Homeland Security Committee,

Dan Bell, ZZ Cattle Company, Nogales, AZ Arizona Cattle Growers Association past President; Supervisor, Santa Cruz NRCD


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Yvette Herrell  (R) NM-02, although not an attendee at this border tour, also weighed in on President Biden’s Executive Order halting border wall construction: