Activists have staged tree-sits on both sides of the US-Mexico border to prevent the destruction of ancient cottonwoods.

A protest camp in the small border town of Lochiel, Arizona, is seeking to stop federal contractors from building another portion of President Trump’s border barrier with Mexico. At the center of the protest camp is a 200-year-old cottonwood known as a “grandmother” tree, with activists sitting in the tree to physically stop its destruction. “People are successfully forcing the government to…

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