Print article GUADALUPE CANYON, Ariz. Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President Donald Trump’s border wall before his term ends next month. Each blast in Guadalupe Canyon releases puffs of dust as workers level land to make way for 30-foot-tall steel columns near the New Mexico line. Heavy machines crawl over roads gouged into rocky slopes while one tap-tap-taps open holes for posts on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property. Trump has expedited border wall construction in his last year, mostly in wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory the government owns in Arizona and New Mexico, avoiding the legal fights over private land in busier crossing areas of Texas. The work has caused environmental damage, preventing animals from moving freely and scarring unique mountain and desert landscapes that conservationists fear could be irre
GUADALUPE CANYON, Ariz. Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President Donald Trump’s border wall before his term ends next month.
Each blast in Guadalupe Canyon releases puffs of dust as workers level land to make way for 30-foot-tall steel columns near the New Mexico line. Heavy machines crawl over roads gouged into rocky slopes while one tap-tap-taps open holes for posts on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property.
Trump has expedited border wall construction in his last year, mostly in wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory the government owns in Arizona and New Mexico, avoiding the legal fights over private land in busier crossing areas of Texas. The work has caused environmental damage, preventing animals from moving freely and scarring unique mountain and desert landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible. The admi
Border wall damage: Blown-up mountains, toppled cactus
AP/Guadalupe Canyon, Arizona Filed on December 17, 2020
Trucks drive along Mexico’s Route 2, top, as border wall construction continues along a cleared pathway, on Dec. 9, 2020, in Guadalupe Canyon, Arizona.
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Contractors are igniting dynamite blasts in southeast corner of Arizona, reshaping the landscape as they pulverise mountaintops
Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President Donald Trump’s border wall before his term ends next month.
Each blast in Guadalupe Canyon releases puffs of dust as workers level land to make way for 30-foot-tall (9-metre-tall) steel columns near the New Mexico line. Heavy machines crawl over roads gouged into rocky slopes while one tap-tap-taps open holes for posts on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property.
LC and UISD board join resolution to stop border wall construction
Laredo Morning Times
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Border Patrol agent Joe Curran looks at fence construction in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Lukeville, Ariz. in January 2020.Carolyn Van Houten / The Washington Post
The board of trustees for Laredo College and United Independent School District both voted this week to approve a resolution urging the incoming Biden administration to terminate the construction contracts for the border wall in the Laredo Sector. Both entities own land along the border that stands to be affected by the wall.
They now join the Webb County Commissioners Court, Zapata County Commissioners Court, Eagle Pass City Council and Texas Democratic Party in this initiative to stop the wall from coming to this stretch of the border before construction begins.
Stopping wall construction could save $2.6 billion, Pentagon says
Josh Dawsey and Nick Miroff, The Washington Post
Dec. 16, 2020
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Border Patrol Agent Joe Curran looks at fence construction in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Lukeville, Ariz., in January 2020.Washington Post photo by Carolyn Van Houten
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government would save about $2.6 billion if President-elect Joe Biden halts construction on the border wall project on his first day in office, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates reviewed by The Washington Post.
Biden told reporters this summer that he would not build another foot of the border barriers that became a symbol of the Trump presidency and one of the most expensive federal infrastructure projects in U.S. history. But the financial implications of a decision to stop work - including the costs to the government it may incur - have not been publicly disclosed.