Posted on 12/17/2020 6:50:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
GUADALUPE CANYON, Ariz. - Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President Donald Trump’s border wall before his term ends next month.
Each blast in Guadalupe Canyon releases puffs of dust as workers level land to make way for 30-foot-tall (9-meter-tall) steel columns near the New Mexico line. Heavy machines crawl over roads gouged into rocky slopes while one tap-tap-taps open holes for posts on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property.
Trump has expedited border wall construction in his last year, mostly in wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory the government owns in Arizona and New Mexico, avoiding the legal fights over private land in busier crossing areas of Texas. The work has caused environmental damage, preventing animals from moving freely and scarring unique mountain and desert landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible. The administration says it’s protecting national security, citing it to waive environmental laws in its drive to fulfill a signature immigration policy.
Environmentalists hope President-elect Joe Biden will stop the work, but that could be difficult and expensive to do quickly and may still leave pillars towering over sensitive borderlands.
The worst damage is along Arizona’s border, from century-old saguaro cactuses toppled in the western desert to shrinking ponds of endangered fish in eastern canyons. Recent construction has sealed off what was the Southwest’s last major undammed river. It’s more difficult for desert tortoises, the occasional ocelot and the world’s tiniest owls to cross the boundary.
“Interconnected landscapes that stretch across two countries are being converted into industrial wastelands,” said Randy Serraglio of the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson.
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How about a list of damages from uncontrolled border crossings?
Looks fine to me. Life goes on as you topple some cacti and a few mountain passes.
I thought it was all about the spotted frog and the strpied minnows
The illegals leave a pristine environment?
Whatever it takes
It was, but now that the HarrisBoiden/Xi regime is about to ascend, its all about working up popular sentiment to try and hang DJT for any crime they can make stick, also about rewriting history.
Sounds fabulous, maybe I will take my Wife there for a Picnic and Watch for a While
The only problem with that wall is that it doesn’t have machine gun nests.
Like construction of interstate highways and laying railroads hadn’t caused damage in the landscape for the past 100 years.
But since its ‘Trump’s’ border wall all the lefty tree-huggers are enraged!
Let’s not forget about all the damage to sand and dirt this wall construction has caused!!!
Biden/Harris are licking their chops and warming their hands at the thought of the $3.3 billion still set aside (according to another article) for the wall construction.
Ok, I will give you a choice:
A. Build a wall to secure the safety of every American.
Or
B. Secure the border with machine guns and bayonets, with no mercy.
Save the dirt!
Save the rocks!
We have to have stuff to put in Democrat’s heads or they’ll float away!
This is the start of a campaign by the left to get the wall torn down.
We know Biden if he gets in office will stop all new construction, the only question is will he tear down what’s already built or will Kamala tear down the wall if she becomes POTUS...
Oh Dear Lord No—Not toppled cacti!! That Trump is a monster!!
Oh, the horror!!!
The horror of it all!!!
The rampant destruction of...well...nothing, but the horror of it. Orange man bad!!!! /S
I think of all the damage that is done by the drugs that come across that border.
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