I have heard about the Texans along the border wall that are fighting the government about giving up their land for a border wall.
It wasn’t until I came to Organ Pipe Cactus National Park and went to Lukeville, AZ to see the progress on the wall there that I learned of the controversy here about native burial grounds on a hill adjacent the wall construction. The wall has an affect in many, but the native Americans here, who were here before countries are also being affected by the building of the wall, as the contractor is blasting on their burial site.
See the following link for more details.
Here is a screen capture of the articles cover page.
Here is a map of the location.
Above - Google maps screen capture.
Note:
- Red pin drop is hill being blasted.
- Blue pin drop near top of picture is the camping area at Organ a Pipe Cactus National Park
I visited the construction site and took the following pictures.
Above is the new wall on flat ground and the burial hill in the article you can see rise up in the distance.
I could hear what I believed to be the blasting while in Ajo, AZ, some 45 miles away.
I was here last year and the old fence to the right of the new talk fence is just metal beams with Velcro’s member that you can step over.
The white building you see is in Mecico.
I was curious what these special wall panels are. They are placed every so often along the new wall.
Above is a better picture of the old wall, or should I say fence. This will soon. E replaced with the much larger wall.
I know I could step over that fence, but the new wall can be climbed and Horton over too.
Here is a news article with a video with 2 people climbing one side and over the other.
Above is a google search screen capture showing a picture of the video where two people climb over the new border wall.
I like to check stories for truthfulness, so I went to Snopes.com and they said have the following.
Above is from a Google search of snopes.com to validate the video.
Brent
macaloney@hotmail.com
I hate to see historic/cultural sites damaged. Especially for something like this. It's already been proven a wall like this is not effective. Every year there's another story of tunnels traveling miles under the border.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it would slow the flow, but at what cost, and to whom.
Thanks for sharing this. I saw an article about it on Facebook and asked Pam and Russ I'd it was true, since they were there, and it was confirmed by them. Very interesting indeed.
ReplyDeleteThis is very sad for our land and environment. Many cactus are being destroyed. They say they are "moving" them, but most will not survive being transplanted; this is very stressful on the cacti and a decent portion will die. The wall will stop many animals like coyote, endangered tortoises, etc. from getting to food and shelter, but will stop little if any immigrants (who will simply climb, tunnel, use ladders/ropes, etc.).
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