Immigration and Borderlands

Trump’s new border wall will threaten wildlife in an area where few people pass

The Guardian

The San Rafael valley in Arizona is home to bears, mountain lions and wolves – now their movement will be restricted. Continue the Full Story

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‘It’s an absolute travesty’: fears for border wildlife as Trump takes office

The Guardian

Environmentalists are braced for new construction on the president’s signature border wall – and the damage that would wreak. Continue the Full Story

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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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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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Pandemic fears in border towns as workers flock in to build Trump’s wall

The Guardian
Unlike the rest of the US, the sleepy border community of Ajo, Arizona, is busier than ever these days, as hundreds of border wall construction workers pass through each day.
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Revealed: how poor Mexicans’ blood plasma feeds UK demand

The Guardian
“The first time I went, I wanted to cry,” said Lucía, a mother of three, describing how her economic situation would compel her to do the journey from her home
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‘Treated like trash’: the project trying to identify the bodies of migrants

The Guardian
Soil is carefully dug and then brushed away and the bags removed from the ground. Inside are bones but also small items that give a touch of humanity and threads
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Trump deploys ‘surge’ of park rangers to patrol Mexican border

The Guardian
Diverting rangers is a way to direct federal resources to the border without the need for congressional approvalHelp us cover the critical issues of 2020. This Giving Tuesday, consider making
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‘This touched everyone’: Walmart store reopens months after mass shooting

The Guardian
Three months after one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history, the Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, where 22 were killed in an August rampage reopened on
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