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sandensea

(21,530 posts)
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 03:30 PM Feb 2020

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

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/





Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument & Mexican border
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Arizona national monument, home to sacred Native American burial sites, is being blown up for wall (Original Post) sandensea Feb 2020 OP
Trump and his cult are causing irreversible damage. SamKnause Feb 2020 #1
Sociopaths do not care. cstanleytech Feb 2020 #2
I'm aware. SamKnause Feb 2020 #3
I do wish THIS could be stopped bluestarone Feb 2020 #4
indeed. It is our last chance. riversedge Feb 2020 #11
I hate this so very much. Akacia Feb 2020 #5
The cruelty is the point Lucky Luciano Feb 2020 #6
Sounds familiar... Taliban destroying cultural sites keithbvadu2 Feb 2020 #7
+1 sandensea Feb 2020 #9
God. This is more really sick, evil shit. Sugar Smack Feb 2020 #8
Kicking to share the dispair. Tom Yossarian Joad Feb 2020 #10
He should be careful next time he plays cards with republican presidents. aka-chmeee Feb 2020 #12
Trump enjoys this Bradical79 Feb 2020 #13
Well said. sandensea Feb 2020 #14

Akacia

(582 posts)
5. I hate this so very much.
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 04:41 PM
Feb 2020

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

aka-chmeee

(1,129 posts)
12. He should be careful next time he plays cards with republican presidents.
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 08:23 PM
Feb 2020

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

 

Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
13. Trump enjoys this
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 04:04 PM
Feb 2020

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

(21,530 posts)
14. Well said.
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 05:15 PM
Feb 2020

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.

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