Damage Wrought by Trump's Border Wall "Will Not Ever Be Remediated or Mitigated"

[douglas9]

In the last year and a half, crews have raced to complete the border wall promised by President Donald Trump. By the time his term ended, many of the construction projects across Arizona’s Borderlands were complete. As President Joe Biden takes charge, environmental groups are taking stock of the environmental destruction caused by the wall as they make the case for restoration.

Much of Arizona’s international border with Mexico is made up of public lands, places set aside by the federal government for special protection because of their unique ecological value—Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, the San Pedro National Riparian Conservation Area, and Cabeza Prieta and San Bernardino national wildlife refuges, among others. So when the Trump administration released its first plans for new border wall construction in Arizona in May 2019, environmentalists were horrified to see that nearly all the proposed wall segments were on those public lands.

The administration “really started to push out into remote, rugged terrain on public lands all across the borderline in Arizona, where the ecological value of those places is so much higher that the damage done by this construction is much more egregious,” said Randy Serraglio, Southwest conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity.


https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/02/damage-wrought-by-trumps-border-wall-will-not-ever-be-remediated-or-mitigated/

[UpInArms]

1. trump destroys everything

KEVIN DAHL: Yeah, I was pretty shocked. We were driving back from visiting Quitobaquito Springs and Pond, an area along the border at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument that I desperately want to see protected from any impacts from the wall. And as we drove along, we noticed between the road and the border wall construction activity was happening, or perhaps you could best term it destruction activity. And I was just shocked to see a bulldozer being used to topple saguaros and push them into a slash pile with other native trees. They were scraping in preparation of building the new wall at this site.

[niyad]

2. Everything ***** touches dies.

[riversedge]

3. In a sane and fair world, Trump would be held personally responsible and hit in the wallet