Biden’s Plan to End Border Wall Work Draws Appeal by Arizona

Arizona told the Ninth Circuit it should reverse a judge’s order and block the Biden administration from ending border wall construction and implementing other related policies because they would increase immigration and harm the environment.

The state challenges a “collection of policies” that it says have the “direct effect of causing growth in the population” in the U.S. and Arizona. The federal government violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to consider increased air emissions, the effects on wildlife and protected species, and the “proliferation of garbage,” the state says.

Arizona told the U.S. District Court for the District ...