Pundits are already bloviating about the damage the malignant narcissist in the VWH has done to our political institutions and norms. US Person is more concerned about the physical damage he has wrought on the landscape. This is damage is near permanent, and is epitomized by what his ridiculous wall building has done to the sensitive desert habitats of the borderlands. The picture shows remote Guadalupe Canyon, Arizona, a riparian habitat that the Department of Homeland Security is ripping up to build a wall that will not stop illegal immigration and is extremely expensive. The agency was able to do this damage to the landscape because the regime waived all relevant environmental protection laws. It has waived more than sixty laws including the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act.
Home to bands of Apache, the canyon is a magnet for wildlife that come to its springs and streams to drink and browse beneath the willows and cottonwoods which shade them from the scorching desert sun. Rare birds such as the violet crowned hummingbird and aplomado falcons live here. Part of the Peloncillo Mountains, the canyon is a corridor ocelots, black bears, mountain lions, white-nosed coati and even jaguars. This mountainous region had been designated critical habitat for North America's biggest cats. It is precious, unspoiled wilderness under study for legal designation. But that will not stop the destruction that is occurring now. The canyon is very steep, so Homeland Security is building switchbacks and blasting cliffs, just for construction access. Their has been recorded dumps of debris onto Mexican territory in violation of the border compact between the two nations.
Guadalupe is literally in the middle of nowhere, thirty miles from the nearest town of Douglas, Arizona. There is no documentation about how much illegal migrants use the canyon as a route north. Most undocumented migrants use existing border entry points. The number of people apprehended while crossing the border illegally in the Tucson sector, of which Guadalupe Canyon is a part, hit a three-year low this past April. There is no national emergency to justify wholesale habitat destruction, some of which cannot be restored. Perhaps now that Arizona has joined the effort to oust the regime, restoration can begin and the land returned to the endangered animals it supports. The wall can be taken down, but the scars on the land will remain.
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