Arizona national monument, home to sacred Native American burial sites, is being blown up for the

[mfcorey1]

border wall.

A national monument in Arizona, home to rare species and sacred Native American burial sites, is being blown up this week as part of construction for President Trump's border wall, Customs and Border Protection confirmed to CBS News. "Controlled blasting" inside Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument began this week without consultation from the Native American nation whose ancestral land it affects, according to the congressman whose district includes the reservation.


"There has been no consultation with the nation," said Congressman Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, who is the chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources and whose district contains the reservation and shares 400 miles of border with Mexico. "This administration is basically trampling on the tribe's history — and to put it poignantly, it's ancestry."

Customs and Border Protection told CBS News that the blasts are in preparation for "new border wall system construction, within the Roosevelt Reservation at Monument Mountain in the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/organ-pipe-cactus-national-monument-blasts-arizona-national-monument-being-blown-up-for-border-wall-2020-02-07/?fbclid=IwAR2IcycYoDRMIix3BQGqj-6jgVLL4vQ5S7P12oOxBUs-zBaEBYTMO4_1XwE

[Kurt V.]

1. so much we are never getting back.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. It's well-known Trump hates Native Americans because they were competition in the gaming biz

I'm sure he took this as a "win-win".

[keithbvadu2]

3. Taliban destroying cultural sites

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=taliban+destroyed+buddhas

[smirkymonkey]

4. American Taliban.

Fuck these bastards!

[EndlessWire]

5. Guess I'm ignorant.

I thought Native American reservations were their exclusive domain.

Remember that commercial decades ago, where, for some cause I can't remember, I think maybe ecology, there was the image of the Native American with a tear rolling down his cheek? I wish some rich fellow would do something similar and show what the Trump regime is doing. Buy airtime everywhere. Shaming has a lasting mental image, and people will remember.

Do it for these monuments, and also for the butterflies.

[Bayard]

6. Absolutely no respect

No respect for other religions and other cultures.



I wish all these sites had the same protections that Calif does when I lived out there---no building activity of any kind within however many feet of Native sites...archaeological or burial grounds.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Sick bastard

The MAGAts are probably loving it however.