Trump’s dumb border wall

A bulldozer plows done onshore during operation for a conception of borderline partition adjacent Santa Elena Canyon connected August 14, 2026 successful Big Bend National Park, Texas. | Brandon Bell/Getty Images

About 22 miles southbound of the erstwhile mining municipality of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved upland roadworthy that passes cows grazing connected unfastened range, stands a cottonwood histrion believed to beryllium astatine slightest 200 years old. The "grandmother" tree, arsenic immoderate locals telephone it, is imperiled and already showing signs of stress, astir arsenic if it knows its fate. The leaves are yellowing prematurely, falling to the crushed astatine the tallness of summer. On July 27th, a operation unit felled 3 neighboring trees to physique an hold of President Donald Trump's partition on the US-Mexico border.

An activistic climbed up the past histrion lasting 2 days aboriginal and ever misdeed …

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