An internal report obtained by the Washington Post found that several archaeological sites at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument 'likely will be wholly or partially destroyed by forthcoming border fence construction.'
dated July 2019 summarized the findings from a survey of 11.3 miles of land along the border in southwestern Arizona that experts said is home to an “abundance of natural and cultural resources unique to the Sonoran Desert.” The report said previous research from the agency recorded 17 archaeological sites that “likely will be wholly or partially destroyed by forthcoming border fence construction." A more recent survey in June identified five more sites that would be affected.
The border wall construction on the land overseen by the National Park Service, as described in the report, would replace existing barriers with taller steel fences that are anchored by deep concrete and steel foundations. It would also create new roads and improve existing ones along the U.S. side of the border, and include installation of surveillance equipment. That construction, archaeologists warn in the report, means on-site “cultural and natural resources are imperiled.
“It is probable that significant, presently-unrecorded surface-level and buried archaeological deposits persist ... and we must assume that all such unrecorded deposits will be destroyed over the course of ensuing border wall construction,” the report said, citing that artifacts discovered at the sites have ties to ancient nomadic peoples and Native American groups, among others.that at least a dozen Native American groups have ties to the lands within the monument.
“We’ve historically lived in this area from time immemorial,” Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Ned Norris Jr.the Post. “We feel very strongly that this particular wall will desecrate this area forever. I would compare it to building a wall over your parents’ graveyards. It would have the same effect.
The construction of a wall along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border has been one of President Trump’s signature promises, and one that he has aggressively pursued. When Trump was on the campaign trail, he vowed to erect a southern border wall to block people from illegally crossing into the U.S. But the wall projectSenate Democrats recently
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