Trump's Border Wall Construction Damages 1,000-Year-Old Sacred Indigenous Site

[Uncle Joe]

Construction crews in Arizona who are building President Trump’s expanded border wall have razed a portion of a Native American archeological site in the Sonoran Desert estimated to be at least 1,000 years old. Aerial photos reveal that bulldozers caused extensive damage to a 280-by-50-foot etching in the desert sand known as an intaglio, which holds special significance for the Hia-Ced O’odham people.

Lorraine Marquez Eiler, co-founder of the International Sonoran Desert Alliance and an elder of the Hia-Ced O’odham, says locals informed both the work crews and Border Patrol officials about the significance of the intaglio.

“On Thursday, late afternoon, they were still talking about how to protect the area and went home feeling that they were still working together. On Friday, for whatever reason, the contractors bulldozed the area,” says Marquez Eiler.

“This wall cuts through sovereign ancestral lands that existed long before the U.S.-Mexico border,” adds Congressmember Adelita Grijalva, whose district includes the area. “The federal government is prioritizing this rapid construction of an unnecessary wall without any meaningful tribal consultation.”

[Attilatheblond]

1. Damage to important sites, and damaging important animal migration routes

The critters know the way to water in our desert. The wall will prevent them from reaching those sources. Species are struggling enough, but will now experience die-offs due to Trump's bullshit propaganda and payoffs to contractors.

[GreenWave]

2. Assholes going to deliberately asshole and laugh about it.