Trump is Destroying Pristine Public Lands to Build His Border Wall — Again

Contractors damaged federally protected habitats in Big Bend National Park and areas near sacred springs in Arizona.

Image: The Tohono O’odham Nation posted no trespassing signs across the reservation to ward off federal contractors attempting to build the border wall and other infrastructure.
Russ McSpadden, Center for Biological Diversity

Mike Ludwig of Truthout reports: “Fights over President Donald Trump’s border wall are erupting once again across the Southwest. Protesters are launching tree-sits in the Arizona-Mexico borderlands, and the Tohono O’odham Nation recently put up “no trespassing” signs to ward off the federal contractors bulldozing across the Sonoran Desert to build a secondary border wall on tribal territory and in the public parklands of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

Flush with more than $46 billion in funding from Trump’s unpopular budget bill passed by the GOP in 2025, the administration is building a complex “border barrier system” that includes a “primary and secondary wall” with a road between them, as well as “waterborne barriers, patrol roads, and the technology required to tie it all together, such as cameras, lights, and other detection technology,” according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)…”

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