We just had a visit from Cochise County Sheriff Operations Commander. He showed up in plain clothes, but did not try to hide his identity. He said he had seen online that there was a "concert" here, and thought he had better come check it out.

The protest camp is right next to all the contractor's heavy equipment. They have a security guard here 24/7.

The Cochise County Sheriff is taking an extremely hands off practice toward the protest, despite supporting the wall.

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This wall is being built at the request of Arizona's outgoing Governor Ducey on public, national forest, land. No environmental review or permit process of any kind has been done.

The Forest Service has declared it illegal and have filed a lawsuit, but not interfered directly. Only the protesters here have stopped ongoing construction.

According to the protesters, federal investigators have come collecting evidence for use in the lawsuit against the governor.

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AZ Governor's container wall is a barbaric symbol to racism and terrible border policy. It is meant as a middle finger to Biden for stopping the Trump wall.

It's clearly not even really meant to work to stop people. It's simple enough to walk around where it stops at creek beds and it's full of walk through holes.
#border #BorderLands #BorderWall

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At dawn the construction crew came back. They said the had orders from the AZ Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to move their equipment to a nearby staging area and to remove the one single container that was not double stacked.

One of the workers thought the logic was that they wanted it removed because it was a "safety hazard" because protesters have been climbing up on top of it.

#border #BorderWall #BorderLands

The main focus of the protests is the environmental destruction created by the building of the AZ Governor Ducey's container wall. It is being carried out willy-nilly, at breakneck speed with no federal permits, despite being on National Forest land.

Or, rather, they were building it until protesters stepped in, and blockaded the construction.

The construction crews have shown no regard for environmental standards, pushing dirt into streams and bulldozing oak trees. #BorderWall #border

The container wall along the US-Mexico border, looking eastward toward Coronado National Monument. Workers can be seen along the top, stringing razor wire.

Protesters have blockaded new container wall construction and shut it down. For now, they have chosen to not risk arrest by interfering with barbed wire installation on the existing containers.

#BorderLands
#BorderWall
#ContainerWall.
#Border