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Blown-up mountains and toppled cactus, damage from border wall December 21, 2020 9:22 AM CDT By Anita Snow
With Mexico to the right, crews stand in a pathway cleared by explosives to make way for border wall construction, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Guadalupe Canyon, Ariz. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible. Matt York | AP
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he spoke with US president-elect Joe Biden by phone, five days after he sent a tardy and somewhat chilly letter of congratulations to Mr Biden.
“We reaffirmed our commitment to work together for the good of our peoples and our countries,” Mr Lopez Obrador wrote in his social media accounts.
Mr Biden’s transition team said the two discussed migration, apparently with a focus on a theme that Mr Lopez Obrador has championed: developing jobs and opportunities so that people will not have to migrate.
“The president-elect emphasised the need to reinvigorate US-Mexico cooperation to ensure safe and orderly migration, contain Covid-19, revitalise the economies of North America, and secure our common border,” said a statement posted on Mr Biden’s transition website.
Associated Press
Newly erected border wall separating Mexico, left, and the U.S., cuts through the Sonoran Desert just west of the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday. Previous Next
Sunday, December 20, 2020 1:00 am
Environmental damage created by wall
Many hoping it can be reversed if building halted
ANITA SNOW | Associated Press
GUADALUPE CANYON, Ariz. – Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President Donald Trump s border wall before his term ends next month.
Each blast in Guadalupe Canyon releases puffs of dust as workers level land to make way for 30-foot-tall steel columns near the New Mexico line. Heavy machines crawl over roads gouged into rocky slopes while one tap-tap-taps open holes for posts on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property.
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he spoke with US president-elect Joe Biden by phone, five days after he sent a tardy and somewhat chilly letter of congratulations to Mr Biden.
“We reaffirmed our commitment to work together for the good of our peoples and our countries,” Mr Lopez Obrador wrote in his social media accounts.
Mr Biden’s transition team said the two discussed migration, apparently with a focus on a theme that Mr Lopez Obrador has championed: developing jobs and opportunities so that people will not have to migrate.
“The president-elect emphasised the need to reinvigorate US-Mexico cooperation to ensure safe and orderly migration, contain Covid-19, revitalise the economies of North America, and secure our common border,” said a statement posted on Mr Biden’s transition website.