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New Drone Footage Shows Damage From Trump’s Wall in Remote Arizona Wildlands
Center for Biological Diversity ^ | April 28, 2020 | Laiken Jordahl

Posted on 04/30/2020 3:53:58 PM PDT by BeauBo

New drone footage shows border-wall construction blasting through a wildlife refuge and mountain range in one of the most remote regions of the United States...

The wall is being built through the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, home to the endangered Sonoran pronghorn, and the rugged Tinajas Altas Mountains in the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range east of Yuma, Arizona...

The construction has forever altered the centuries-old Camino del Diablo, or Devil’s Highway. The ancient trade route, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was traveled by Native Americans, explorers, miners and missionaries like Father Eusebio Kino. Once a forbidding, high-clearance trail, the Camino has been bulldozed and bladed by construction crews into a major thoroughfare...

Wall construction has accelerated across the borderlands despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of miles of new construction have been announced in recent months...

Wall construction is ongoing in the neighboring Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and across Arizona.

(Excerpt) Read more at biologicaldiversity.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 2006; 202005; borderwall; cabezaprieta; cabezaprietanwr; caminodeldiablo; cbd; devilshighway; mountain; organpipecactus; organpipecactusnm
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To: BeauBo

A wildlife refuse that encompasses both sides of
the border? Does the wildlife have dual citizenship?


101 posted on 04/30/2020 5:56:19 PM PDT by Sivad (Socialism: Vote your way in, shoot your way out.)
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To: JPJones

They make this sound like it is a bad thing!


102 posted on 04/30/2020 5:58:42 PM PDT by madrastex
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To: JPJones

They make this sound like it is a bad thing!


103 posted on 04/30/2020 5:58:42 PM PDT by madrastex
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To: BeauBo

It’s a desert wasteland, no longer to be traversed by illegal border crossers.


104 posted on 04/30/2020 5:59:15 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: dsc

You need to binge watch “Justified”

I am serious

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BU3rQu83BKE

Stetson used to sell a hat like Rayland’s

The very last episode was about the best tv ever. Even Rush said so.


105 posted on 04/30/2020 5:59:27 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: BeauBo

where are the photos of the litter and feces the illegals leave behind


106 posted on 04/30/2020 6:00:33 PM PDT by stuckincali
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To: the_Watchman

Actually, nothing will ever compare to the damage illegals and drug couriers do to these areas as they spread trash all over the place. These liberal hand-wringers should be happy that once the construction is over, these areas will be able to devolve to the pristine areas that they were 40 years ago. They will finally be undisturbed by illegal traffic.

Was about to post just that ^ ^ - thanks, you said what I was going to say.

107 posted on 04/30/2020 6:03:32 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: heshtesh
These parasites are nothing but pigs!

I have been to AZ several times, and I've seen such trash left by illegals with my own eyes. The pictures I posted didn't show the unburied feces strewn all over, or the wreck they made of any structures they encountered. How completely can they demonstrate their complete disrespect for our nation? First they break our laws and sneak over our sovereign borders. With their first steps on our soil, they trash the place. How perfectly this trash and feces represents what THEY are! Then, they go about lying their fat ugly faces off to gain asylum they do not merit and finally, they help themselves to free education, medical care, legal aid, housing, etc., all on OUR dime. Fat disgusting pigs no country needs to add to their population. And I've had these illegals in my classroom in NYC; they don't want to learn, all they want to do is jump each others' bones and make their anchor babies so their future here is assured. Their presence here is about as beneficial to our country as importing several million sewer rats.

108 posted on 04/30/2020 6:04:15 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: BeauBo; little jeremiah

Pretty country out there BeauBo.

This will be a challenge to build thrythese mountains


109 posted on 04/30/2020 6:07:53 PM PDT by thinden
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To: Sivad
On Apr 30, 2020, at 18:09, I wrote:  Regarding your article about the damage “Trump’s Wall” is causing. Where are the photos of ther tons of litter and feces the illegals leave behind when they cross at unathorized places? A US citizen who knows the president represents the country and doesn’t own the wall. response: I worked as a ranger at Organ Pipe. We used to send out aerial photographers to document damage regularly. In the early 2000s, there was indeed a lot of damage from border crossers. But now, those numbers have plummeted and we installed vehicle barriers to stop vehicles from crossing the border. The damage our photographers document is now almost entirely from border patrol driving off road through wilderness (as much as 17,000 miles in just one year).
110 posted on 04/30/2020 6:13:05 PM PDT by stuckincali
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To: Secret Agent Man
They could run multiple stories of the damage illegals and coyotes have done to the very same places with garbage and feces.

Don't forget the rape trees and the area is also the slave route for women sex slaves.

111 posted on 04/30/2020 6:14:19 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: BeauBo

beautiful...we have to save the lives of migrants crossing the border due to heat stroke , right? s/


112 posted on 04/30/2020 6:15:33 PM PDT by max americana (Intentionally fired leftards at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy seeing them cry)
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To: TLI
"A construction project is damaging a bombing range?"

Maybe the thousands of explorers, trade caravans, missionaries, miners, and American Indians currently depending on the trail didn't think to build bomb/blast shelters along the trail...

113 posted on 04/30/2020 6:18:21 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: BeauBo

Snail Darters, not available for comment.


114 posted on 04/30/2020 6:19:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: BeauBo

Looking GOOD!


115 posted on 04/30/2020 6:19:44 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: EinNYC

I live in NYS and agree with every word you posted.


116 posted on 04/30/2020 6:21:51 PM PDT by heshtesh
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To: BeauBo

Center for Biological Diversity.

Heck, everyone wants biological diversity.

Is that you Green Piece?

I know.

5.56mm


117 posted on 04/30/2020 6:23:12 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: combat_boots

Although Rush and I are almost exactly the same age, I have led a more rough-and-tumble life. My brain housing group* is suffering from abuse and extreme wear and tear.

I did bingewatch Justified, and remember very little about it. I have a vague sense that it was better than I thought it would be.

The upside of that is that I can bingewatch it again without becoming bored.

*The three basic units of the M1 Garand are the barrel and receiver, the stock, and the trigger housing group. People sometimes refer to a human’s skull and its contents as the brain housing group.


118 posted on 04/30/2020 6:24:12 PM PDT by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: BeauBo

A wildlife refuse that encompasses both sides of
the border? Does the wildlife have dual citizenship?


119 posted on 04/30/2020 6:25:13 PM PDT by Sivad (Socialism: Vote your way in, shoot your way out.)
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To: BeauBo

So?


120 posted on 04/30/2020 6:26:14 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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