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How Trump’s Attempt at a Wall on U.S.-Mexico Border Damaged the Environment & Local Wildlife

Kiko Martinez — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:05:22 +0000

Now that President Joe Biden has stopped the construction of Trump’s wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, media outlets and environmental organizations are finally getting a clearer view of the destruction that has been done to the borderlands. “This is damage that will not ever be remediated or mitigated,” Randy Serraglio, Southwest conservation advocate with the

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Trump’s Border Wall Construction Crew Is Bulldozing Through Sacred Land

Raquel Reichard — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:49:01 +0000

Environmentalist and Indigenous groups are outraged after a video began circulating on social media showing construction crews bulldozing some of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument’s most iconic cacti in an effort to build President Donald Trump’s long-promised border wall. While the footage only shows a bulldozer moving a fallen cactus out of the way, Kevin

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Make America Grate Again: Artist Creates a Cotija Cheese Wall to Satirize Border Wall

Yara Simón — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:42:00 +0000

Since President Donald Trump launched his campaign, several artists and activists have attempted to build him the border wall he so desperately wants. There was the teeny tiny border wall surrounding his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Or the human wall that Mijente built outside of the Republic National Convention in Cleveland. Now,

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This 900-Foot Tunnel Ran From A KFC In Arizona To Sonora, Mexico

Frances Solá-Santiago — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:41:47 +0000

Thanks, in part, to Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, tunnels have become synonymous with drugs. El Chapo reportedly used an elaborate tunnel to escape jail and he used these underground passageways to build his trafficking empire in Mexico. They are certainly nothing new; the first drug tunnel found along the border was in 1990. But in Arizona,

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Surprising No One, New Report Confirms That Trump’s Border Wall Is a Terrible, Expensive Waste of Time

Adriana Cataño — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 20:29:39 +0000

By now we know that President Donald Trump is a petulant man baby. He’s so impulsive that if a celebrity or politician bad mouths him, he takes the bait and tweets absurdities. It’s this same hastiness that told him that building a border wall would be easy. But as a new Government Accountability Office report

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