Arizona national monument, home to sacred Native American burial sites, is being blown up for wall

[sandensea]

Source: CBS News

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 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.

"There has been no consultation with the nation," said Congressman Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, who is the chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources and whose district contains the reservation and shares 400 miles of border with Mexico.

"This administration is basically trampling on the tribe's history — and to put it poignantly, it's ancestry."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/organ-pipe-cactus-national-monument-blasts-arizona-national-monument-being-blown-up-for-border-wall-2020-02-07/

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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument & Mexican border

[SamKnause]

1. Trump and his cult are causing irreversible damage.

[cstanleytech]

2. Sociopaths do not care.

[SamKnause]

3. I'm aware.

[bluestarone]

4. I do wish THIS could be stopped

Nov. is like our LAST chance!!

[riversedge]

11. indeed. It is our last chance.

[Akacia]

5. I hate this so very much.

Some things can never be brought back. What makes it even worse is that a wall is so useless!

[Lucky Luciano]

6. The cruelty is the point

[keithbvadu2]

7. Sounds familiar... Taliban destroying cultural sites

Sounds familiar... Taliban destroying cultural sites

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=taliban+destroyed+buddhas

[sandensea]

9. +1

Excellent analogy. Thank you.

They don't call them the American Taliban for nothing.

[Sugar Smack]

8. God. This is more really sick, evil shit.

Disgusting.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. Kicking to share the dispair.

[aka-chmeee]

12. He should be careful next time he plays cards with republican presidents.

(Andy Thomas nightmare) Teddy is standing right behind him and will likely take issue with this treatment of National Parks and Monuments.

[Bradical79]

13. Trump enjoys this

And at least 60 million Americans will go to bat for him. This is the sort of behavior that tells me compromising with the GOP on anything important is a waste of time and self destructive. They actively support cruelty, and will also stab you in the back first chance they get.

[sandensea]

14. Well said.

The cruelty is, as we all know, the point - so what good would it do to have a "debate of ideas" with people like that.

It would be like debating women's rights with Henry VIII.