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…The Guardian5d agoWhole story →PlanetJusticeborder wall construction
'Grandmother' tree uprooted for border wall constructionFederal agents in Southern Arizona arrested protesters on Tuesday who were trying to protect a towering grove of cottonwood trees along the U.S.-Mexico border.EUROPE SAYS9d agoWhole story →SecurityPlanetborder wall construction
