The Sonoran Desert, a landscape where time is measured in millennia rather than minutes, has been scarred by the very machinery intended to secure the nation’s future. In a startling admission issued last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed that a contractor, commissioned under the Trump administration’s sweeping mandate to erect a secondary “smart” wall, has severely damaged the Las Playas Intaglio—a cultural treasure nearly 1,000 years old.
Construction of Trump’s Second Border Wall Did ‘Irreparable’ Damage to a 1,000-Year-Old Sacred Archeological Site
