https://theintercept.com/2022/12/14/doug-ducey-border-wall-protest/
"Michael and Christie Brown resisted putting a barrier around their beloved
desert home for years, but the nights were getting too dangerous. It was a
question of safety. They needed a fence.
The Browns live 10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, on the southeastern
edge of Sierra Vista, in Cochise County, Arizona. Like many of their neighbors
at the foot of the rugged Huachuca Mountains, the Browns’s worry was javelinas,
tenacious borderland omnivores often mistaken for wild pigs. Their dogs had
been attacked. Their garden was in peril. Javelina damage keeps the Browns up
at night. A purported wave of migrants laying siege to their community does
not.
In late October, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey began unloading thousands of shipping
containers on the border in the Coronado National Forest to thwart a supposed
“invasion” on the Browns’ doorstep. Topped with concertina wire and welded
together, the nearly 9,000-pound boxes would be stacked two high on land where
the retirees chop wood every winter, where they took their sons hiking and
camping as kids, and where they still hike and camp to this day. In the early
2000s, they saw evidence of heavy migration through the area — discarded desert
clothes, empty water jugs, trash — but it hadn’t been like that in more than a
decade."
Via Tess.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
