SAMUEL N GILBERT

A Night at Santa Fe’s GreenTree Inn

The Santa Fe New Mexican

Nights at the GreenTree Inn are rarely quiet.

During his first stay in the spring of 2020, Noah Armijo awoke to the sound of gunshots in the parking lot nearby.

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A Testament of Human Resilience

Counter Punch

The sun has not yet risen on Eyal checkpoint in the northwestern city of Qalqilya.

Already hundreds of Palestinians queue up and wait to cross into Israel and begin the

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2020 was deadliest year for migrants crossing unlawfully into US via Arizona

The Guardian
© Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Micah Garen/Getty Images When the remains of two undocumented migrants were found in the desert of south-western Arizona last July, one body lay next
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My neighbourhood is being destroyed to pacify his supporters’: the race to complete Trump’s wall

The Guardian
At Sierra Vista Ranch in Arizona near the Mexican border, Troy McDaniel is warming up his helicopter. McDaniel, tall and slim in a tan jumpsuit, began taking flying lessons in
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Trump’s border wall construction threatens survival of jaguars in the US

The Guardian
By the 1960s, the North American jaguar had vanished from the southern US borderland after being hunted to extinction. Yet in the mid-1990s, there was a remarkablediscovery: the jaguar had
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An incredible scar’: the harsh toll of Trump’s 400-mile wall through national parks

The Guardian
In the 1980s, when Kevin Dahl first began visiting the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument in southern Arizona, the border was unmarked, save for a simple fence used to keep
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Protests target Spanish colonial statues that ‘celebrate genocide’ in US west

The Guardian
As a national debate swirls around statues of Confederate officials, a new battle is brewing in the western US over the fate of monuments glorifying the brutal Spanish conquest of
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Armed vigilantes under scrutiny after statue protester shot in New Mexico

The Guardian
Officials are scrutinizing armed vigilante groups in New Mexicofollowing the shooting of a protester calling for the removal of a controversial colonial statue. Police are examining whether the shooter belonged
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Inside the Border Security Expo, Where Companies Sell Surveillance Tech to CBP

VICE
On demo day at the Border Security Expo, hundreds of law enforcement agents armed with M16s, automatic shotguns, pistols, and other high powered and military-grade weapons strolled around the grounds
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