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Outrage as feds raid camp to destroy 200-year-old landmark for Trump’s border wall: report

More than 80 federal officers swarmed an Arizona camp built to protect a 200-year-old landmark in the path of President Donald Trump’s border wall, sparking a chaotic scene that infuriated activists, The Guardian reported Saturday. “Seeing that — it crushes your heart,” said Eric Meza, a coordinator for a group that had organized to protect a…

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Despair after 200-year-old ‘grandmother’ tree toppled for Trump’s border wall: ‘It crushes your heart’Protesters spent months occupying an ancient cottonwood. Then a tense standoff with US border patrol came to a head A 200-year-old cottonwood tree near the US-Mexico border , known as the “grandmother”, has been destroyed to make way for the construction of Donald Trump ’s border wall, despite a months-long effort by protesters trying to save it. In late…
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