“Animals have been migrating through this route for tens of thousands of years,” a biologist said, of the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. “If we cut off this population, we’re essentially altering the evolutionary history of North America.”
this November, said that he would use state and private funding to resume border-wall construction. The Texas governor has obtained seventeen hundred unused wall panels from a federal agency that distributes surplus material. Following Trump’s playbook, he has declared a state of disaster on the border, and reallocated state funds for barrier construction which the legislature had originally designated for other uses.
On a visit to the canyon, Kurc recalled what the area looked like during that time. Hundreds of R.V.s. filled the site. Using backhoes and bulldozers, workers carved out roads leading to multiple wall-construction sites. “This was like a huge city,” he said. The new barrier blocked large portions of a critical habitat for various species in the southern Peloncillo Mountains—the only link between the Rockies and the Sierra Madre Occidental.
For years, Traphagen, using trail cameras, had captured images of javelinas, bobcats, mountain lions, Coues white-tailed deer, and Sonoran mule deer traversing the border. Since the construction of the wall, he’s lucky if he spots a skunk. “The southeastern corner of the state is where the jaguar and the black bear share the same trails,” Traphagen said. Scores of streams were also dammed, irreplaceable fossil groundwater was depleted, and the removal of vegetation created a risk of erosion.
. In 1849, in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, the two countries placed hundreds of markers, including obelisks of stone and marble, along the newly negotiated border. Nearly two centuries later, barbed-wire fences and walls, some of which were built with steel helicopter landing pads from the Vietnam War, have dwarfed the nineteenth-century markers.
At the same time, Steve Bannon, Trump’s former White House strategist, and three of his associates launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to build a private border wall on a neighboring property. Bannon, who was later accused of defrauding donors but was pardoned by Trump, constructed less than five miles of wall. Anzaldua could see the construction, shoddily done, from his dock. “It’s foolish,” he said. “The river will end up washing it away.
“Like we needed to have a wall when there’s already the best natural wall you could ever have,” Traphagen said, of the Tinajas Altas mountains.
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