Blasting Begins For #BorderWall On Cherished #NewMexico Mountain

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30032026/new-mexico-mount-cristo-rey-destruction-border-wall/

A planned 1.3-mile wall across Mount Cristo Rey has drawn opposition from environmentalists and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces.

Blasting Begins For Border Wall On Cherished New Mexico Mountain - Inside Climate News

A planned 1.3-mile wall across Mount Cristo Rey has drawn opposition from environmentalists and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces.

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Parks Not Prisons: Defending our Communities & Lands from Border Walls and Detention Camps Across the country, some of America’s most treasured landscapes, from Big Bend National Park to the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, #BorderWall #DHS #ICECamps www.youtube.com/watch?v=To9O...

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Parks Not Prisons: Defending our Communities & Lands from Border Walls and Detention Camps

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As Big Bend area border walls move forward, local landowners gear up for a fight

"Advocates are rushing to help landowners with legal aid in sparsely populated rural areas along the Rio Grande in the path of the border wall. The federal government’s efforts to contact landowners about the project has hit a snag due to complicated land ownership."

#Texas #TheBorder #WestTexas #TransPecos #BorderWall

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/big-bend-border-wall-texas-landowners-marfa/

As Big Bend area border walls move forward, local landowners gear up for a fight

Advocates are rushing to help landowners with legal aid in sparsely populated rural areas along the Rio Grande in the path of the border wall. The federal government's efforts to contact landowners about the project has hit a snag due to complicated land ownership.

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Trump's border wall push just turned one family into billionaires. Fisher Sand & Gravel scored $8B+ in contracts—taxpayers foot the bill while the Fishers' company hits $1B+ valuation. Transparency concerns rise as wall work continues. 🤔 #BorderWall #Politics
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Trump border wall hands family billions while taxpayers foot the bill

As the Trump administration continues its mission to finish the infamous border wall and continue mass deportations, one family that specializes in sand and gravel keeps getting richer, raising questions over transparency and fairness in Trump’s spending blitz

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MAGA supporters RAGE against #DonaldTrump and his team's outrageous NEW #BorderWall plans to build through protected #BigBendNationalPark lands, which GOP leadership is trying to fast-track and would have CATASTROPHIC consequences. #YasminKahn and #JayarJackson break it down youtu.be/IX7tms1Dado?...

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MAGA Supporters TURN On Trump Team Over Catastrophic Big Bend Border Wall Plans

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At Coronado National Memorial, Arizona, here to photograph the blasting of a mountain away for a new section of the border wall.

Connection is too weak to upload a photo right now.

The blast window is between noon and 5 PM. It's quarter to one now, so I could have a long wait. The bulldozer working the slope just left, but there are several trucks and an excavator still there, so they are probably not about to blast just yet.

The location is just west of where the Arizona Trail starts at the border. When you start the hike, the tradition is to take a selfie at the border monument. But the wall will cut off access to it.

#Border #BorderWall #Immigration

Been out by the US southern border in the San Rafael Valley, Arizona for the last couple days shooting photos. Just got back and heard about events in Mexico. There was no indication that anything was amiss out there. Usual number Border Patrol vehicles, etc.

Photo: three iterations of the US border demarcation. Monument number 108, the barbed wire cattle fence that has marked the line since the mid-1800s, and the vehicle barrier, a.k.a. "Normandy barrier", built by the Obama administration. ("Thanks Obama"?) This will soon be replaced by the 30 foot steel fence started by the first Trump administration, but halted by Biden before completion. This San Rafael Valley stretch is 27 miles, of which about 5 miles has been built.

#border #BorderWall #AllWallsFall #immigration

The other nice bolt I caught a couple days ago, right near the new #BorderWall in San Rafael Valley, Arizona.

Weird. I'm noticing in this pic and the OP lightning shot that there are these blobs of purplish color in the shot. That isn't there in Lightroom or in Mac Preview, so it must be something messed up in Mastodon's compression algorithm.

#LandscapePhotography #StormChasing #lightning

Earlier in the day, 180° from the OP lightning bolt above, is this tree and a gap in the new border wall. I've been to this silly tree three times now trying to get the right shot of it. It's hard because most of the day the sun is straight behind it/overhead. By the time the light is better, the sun is setting behind the ridge.

Anyway, tree and stupid #BorderWall San Rafael Valley, Arizona.

#LandscapePhotography #border #immigration