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riversedge

(70,182 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:35 PM Feb 2021

BREAKING: Horrifying new videos appear to show #BorderWall bulldozers tearing through pristine Arizo

so sad.




BREAKING: Horrifying new videos appear to show #BorderWall bulldozers tearing through pristine Arizona wildlands in violation of Biden's order halting construction.


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BREAKING: Horrifying new videos appear to show #BorderWall bulldozers tearing through pristine Arizo (Original Post) riversedge Feb 2021 OP
Lock them up! sheshe2 Feb 2021 #1
Weld the cell shut. This is an intentional provocation. marble falls Feb 2021 #3
Yes. sheshe2 Feb 2021 #5
We need to stop being nice and enforce the law. No mercy, no probation, no plea bargain ... marble falls Feb 2021 #9
Might have to round up all the ICE people down there soothsayer Feb 2021 #2
Well hey probably don't feel they have to pause because Biden is not "their" president Dream Girl Feb 2021 #4
Stop payment C_U_L8R Feb 2021 #6
May be OLD video... Published 8:00am MT Oct, 14, 2019 TigressDem Feb 2021 #7
Do we know when this video was taken? n/t Mr.Bill Feb 2021 #8
Need to find out exactly when those videos were taken. scarletwoman Feb 2021 #10
sen. sinema will get right on it ok nt msongs Feb 2021 #11

marble falls

(57,063 posts)
9. We need to stop being nice and enforce the law. No mercy, no probation, no plea bargain ...
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:45 PM
Feb 2021

Just hard straight time, like the way that they do to PoC.

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
2. Might have to round up all the ICE people down there
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:38 PM
Feb 2021

And send them to a seminar somewhere. Then stop all this nonsense while they’re tied up.

TigressDem

(5,125 posts)
7. May be OLD video... Published 8:00am MT Oct, 14, 2019
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:44 PM
Feb 2021
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2019/10/14/u-s-border-officials-push-back-against-video-shows-contractor-bulldozing-saguaros/3949020002/


Feds explain conservation measures after viral video shows bulldozed saguaro at Arizona border
Rafael Carranza and Curt Prendergast
The Arizona Republic and Arizona Daily Star
Published 8:00am MT Oct, 14, 2019



Do you have a NON-Tweet link?


scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
10. Need to find out exactly when those videos were taken.
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:58 PM
Feb 2021

Biden's order to "pause" construction of the wall gave the contractors 7 days to wind down.

Unfortunately, they seemed to take that as permission to rush through as much destruction as possible.

There's another post from today about "the wall" - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215098394

Got to the link at the link in that post for more pictures of the destruction: https://www.businessinsider.com/pictures-trumps-half-built-border-wall-and-ruined-landscape-2021-2

Half-built walls and ruined mountains: Pictures and video show the remains of Trump's incomplete border wall
Mia Jankowicz 14 hours ago

Construction has paused on Trump's border wall following a proclamation by President Joe Biden.
Insider commissioned a photographer to document parts of the border wall that never got done.
The landscape is strewn with rough roads, rubble, and evidently useless portions of wall.


All along the US-Mexico border, the machines are silent. On January 20, President Joe Biden gave workers seven days to wind down construction on President Donald Trump's signature project, the border wall.

That work has paused while the Biden administration reviews all contracts and the costs of "terminating or repurposing" them.

-snip-

Toward the end of Trump's term, contractors rushed to tackle arduous terrain, carving access roads and blasting staging areas into areas that campaigners said would never actually be completed.

Insider commissioned the photographer John Darwin Kurc to document those parts of the border where work has suddenly stopped.



Lots more photos at the link - the whole article is well worth reading.
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