home to Native American burial sites, is being blown up for border wall
AZ national monument, home to Native American burial sites, is being blown up for border wall
"A national monument in Arizona, home to rare species and sacred Native American burial sites, is being blown up this week as part of construction for President Donald Trump's border wall, Customs and Border Protection confirmed to CBS News. "Controlled blasting" inside Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument began this week without consultation from the Native American nation whose ancestral land it affects, according to the congressman whose district includes the reservation.
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"The Trump administration has been able to legally construct the border wall over public land due in large part to a little known law passed in the wake of the 9/11.
"The REAL ID Act of 2005 gives the federal government broad power to waive other laws that stand in the way of national security. Under REAL ID, the Trump administration has waived dozens of laws — including the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Environmental Protection Act — in its bid to construct the border wall.
"Of the 21 times the (REAL ID) waiver has been enacted since 2005, 16 of those instances have occurred in the last two and a half years," reads the letter Grijalva sent to Homeland Security.
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god, they make me sick. it's like every time you turn around, sit down, stand up, or take a breath they are fucking up or destroying another piece of america.
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