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.
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A Customs and Border Patrol vehicle carries two detained migrants down from Montezuma s Pass in Coronado National Memorial, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Hereford, Ariz. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible. (AP Photo/Matt York) December 18, 2020 - 10:00 AM
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 Trumpâs border wall before his term ends next month.