“American Scar”: The Environmental Tragedy of the Border Wall | The New Yorker Documentary

[@FollowTheJohn]

Thank you for helping me tell the story.

[@hopesnopes]

Thank YOU so very much. This is heartbreaking to watch, and I appreciate what it must've taken for you to stay there and document this horror.

[@Maliceless100]

Thank you.

[@pamelatripp7221]

@@hopesnopes is not working working remotely remotely with e or so and w we’re d

[@paillette2010]

This is one that is so underreported that it’s sickening.

[@BUNKERJR53]

Thank you sir for showing the truth. Trump's senseless act. His monument for nothing.

[@serealbasar9489]

Stop the Illegal crossing, and the Environment will be saved.

[@SA-Napalm]

I realy wish he cared for his fellow Americans like he cares for a mountain or a cactus..

[@pedrofernandez8729]

Do an update on the human tragedy of having no wall and no control of the border.

[@Gpacharlie]

They will not do anything outside of their narrative. Besides, they don’t actually care about humans.

[@jamescurran6277]

And now these people are showing up in the Upper East Side where New Yorker writers live. Get ready for a complete 180.

[@viralmemes9213]

they already threw them on Rikers Island.

[@brendaphillips8194]

The point is that there was virtually no border crossings here. Most Americans don’t hate immigrants.

[@Gpacharlie]

@@brendaphillips8194 When did liberal become narrow and manipulative? When do we start talking about 500,000 fentanyl deaths in less than 7 years? And don’t get me started on 70,000,000 womb babies crushed to death since 1973.

[@Greasy856]

@@brendaphillips8194you said immigrants you forgot the illegal part we all hate aliens

[@bryantsamperi3402]

Why is it that the people that live in the most environmentally damaging places, like New York City, and whose lifestyles therein attribute to far more pollution and destruction, are always worried about the lesser problems somewhere else?

[@JEK]

Agree. I will wait here for a good explanation.

[@marksprague1280]

It's just the usual ignorant hypocrisy of the effete city sewer rats.

[@nicholasforrester8587]

Agreed 👍🏻

[@mattdad8429]

Cuz they're outnumbered. You got 9 million other people going about their daily lives, but no one cares about a vast desert so they cling to that as their little thing they feel they can control. It's all about control. The liberals don't really care about the deer population in the middle of gat-dayum nowhere, but in their mind - ooh boy you better not f*ck around with their deer pals or they will mess your day up.

[@michaelsimmons6138]

Agree 100%

[@johnbaker7778]

If we get rid of the drug dealers and human traffickers, the animals can run free

[@richardj.chaparrosr.9810]

SMH...

[@nuckleberryfinn]

Negative IQ comment 🥴

[@easystreetwithjen]

Are you indigenous?

[@danielgriffin8132]

We need the wall .I've lived in Arizona 67 years the wall definitely helps with illegal migration and illegal Drugs. We definitely need the wall.

[@luperamos7307]

How come L.A. never had an issue? Much more Latino than any place in Arizona. And there were loads of people crossing for decades and nobody cared. But just when the numbers are way down anyway they make a big deal out of it. Completely illogical.

[@jamescurran6277]

@@luperamos7307 LA never had an issue? Talk about uninformed.

[@luperamos7307]

@@jamescurran6277 I don't see politicians successfully running on an anti immigration platform there as they do in Texas. Please enlighten me and refer me to one if you know .

[@veganconservative1109]

@@luperamos7307 Having lived for many years in both places.... are you nuts?

[@luperamos7307]

@@veganconservative1109 Who runs on an anti immigrant program there?

[@passingRakz954]

You guys care about some sand, dirt, cactuses, stone and one animal more than the people in America?

[@watchinboats]

We must live in the saddest .. most ignorant times.. deprived of respect and love for nature and the Earth.. ruled by fear, greed and misinformation..

[@johnsmith1474]

We live in the best of times in human history. If you can't grasp that it's because you are completely unfamiliar with past history. Read 100 serious works of human history and find your safe place & time. You could be starving for ten thousand years, then at the mercy of anyone bigger than you with a club for ten thousand more, then at the mercy of religious laws or military enslavement for 5000 more. Then you get to recorded history and you have disease and war and superstition. All this time you have zero rights and no ability to change whatever you were born into. On & on. Wake up!

[@tatchik77]

Heartbreakingly true! 😭

[@IcelanderUSer]

And there’s this insatiable appetite among a large number of people to consume endless talk of victimhood, hatred, blame. They think homelessness is a Democrat creation and problem. Not an American problem. They’re fed the same propaganda the Soviet Union used against America. Except now this propaganda is aimed at Democrats and blue cities and states. They talk of the homeless camps problem in blue cities as being caused by all the money being given to these people. They live in a world with zero solutions, only endless complaining. Endless blaming.

[@adonnaprice9676]

You and your family meet up with the cartel some evening, get real..

[@mrtruth1748]

Highways are ok to you

[@standdown4929]

These are not sensitive habitat areas. That's a bunch of bs. I have lived in Arizona my entire life and have watched them destroy thousands of acres of land daily for neighborhoods, freeways, factories, new cities. But you don't hear any complaining about that, do you?

[@luperamos7307]

How does that compare to a wall? If they put up neighborhoods in places there will still be loads of space elsewhere.

[@standdown4929]

@@luperamos7307 And there is still loads of space with the wall.

[@TheAlbinoskunk]

@@standdown4929 the argument is that animals with wide ranges and which frequent different areas of wilderness will have fewer options and therefore less resource and genetic resilience

[@standdown4929]

@@TheAlbinoskunk Because that is the only argument they have for not securing the border.

[@skyislandaz]

And on top of that, a bigger issue is..."what does the unregulated foot & vehicle traffic of thousands of illegal border transgressors do to the local environment?" Illegal alien border smuggling creates a lot of terrain damage, disruption of breeding/nesting/feeding ground activities and there are literally of tons of trash/litter in the desert filling the washes and arroyos of these areas.

[@danielgriffin8132]

We wouldn't need a wall if people didn't enter the USA ILLEGALLY .SO BLAME the law breakers for the wall.

[@caseclosed9342]

I actually interact with a lot of people who live on the southern border through my job. They are VERY supportive of the wall and have often dealt with illegal migrants and smugglers firsthand. And funny thing, most of those people are Hispanic. The white guy says the wall is “racist”, but takes no effort to interview the locals. And if animals can live in the Korean DMZ, I’m sure they can live in the border area with the wall.

[@gardencity3558]

I wonder those of you condeming this wall would be okay with it if it's a solar panel farm?

[@MultiBaseball1010]

Nope. Not in these sensitive habitat areas.

[@standdown4929]

@@MultiBaseball1010 These are not sensitive habitat areas. That's a bunch of bs. I have lived in Arizona my entire life and have watched them destroy thousands of acres of land daily for neighborhoods, freeways, factories, new cities. But you don't hear any complaining about that, do you?

[@bluchismoon]

@@standdown4929 sadly, that stuff is useful to capitalism. The border wall is just completely useless.

[@standdown4929]

@@bluchismoon You are full of it. I has nothing to do with capitalism. Every country has a border, and while your at it pull up all of the thousands of deaths caused by not having a secure border. You don't live near the border, I can tell, you know nothing.

[@IDNHANTU2day]

Or bulldozing and leveling thousands of acres of wild habitat to plant Corn for Ethanol and Vegetables for some cults.

[@christiemckim4286]

America does not need open borders. The crime and drug smuggling that occurs on the border is outrageous. Not to mention human trafficking and we have plenty of homeless people in America that need to be taken care of. The drain on America resources is another issue with open borders

[@au131951]

I do wonder if it is effective at all in this regard. But I do agree with you.

[@roj4169]

This wall is basically opening roads in mountains that will be used by smugglers. The mountains were in great part a natural border, now it's a shortcut.

[@jmpattillo]

We are going to need lots more workers as the US population ages, and we need an orderly process to get them. Immigration reform is long overdue.

[@zombies4evadude24]

@@jmpattillo oh trust me, we have plenty of humans on this planet. We really don’t need that much more. We should try and focus on helping the poor people already here get decent jobs. With so many available job openings, why is there an issue? Shoddy education, that’s why.

[@dougd6523]

I would love to the The Texans view on the border wall not the New Yorker liberals view

[@Soma81]

We LOVE the Border Wall. Notice the Cowards in New York live in their Fancy Condo's

[@luperamos7307]

They are as racist and xenophobic as it gets. And you know that.

[@shaketin]

New York is one of the most problematic cities in the US especially environmentally. They only care about the environment when it has nothing to do with them

[@miketexas4549]

We not only need a wall, we need the military. These people have no business in our country!

[@mrtruth1748]

Liberals don't want both sides views told. They like their bubble.

[@jguerrero]

Sad reality... most environmental tragedies can be linked to political greed here, there, everywhere.

[@juliejensen7370]

And HUMAN GREED everywhere.

[@joshuaphillips755]

It's monetary gain no matter how you cut it.

[@johnsmith1474]

The net worst environmental tragedies are natural, as with flood and earthquake. The fence is minor and could be removed.

[@kihntagious]

@Joe Rogans Lost Hair Come up with the evidence. You can't just say that to make it true.

[@chrismc.4437]

Do you like green eggs and ham?

[@kongvinter33]

haha still blaming Trump? so are we gonna ignore that Biden has continued what Trump did and Obama did before him?

[@davidcummings6299]

Talk about a scar on the environment have you seen “ New York City “ talk about destroying the environment!

[@veganconservative1109]

Liberals like to hold rallies to 'defend ecology' then depart an leave their heaps of garbage for the locals to have to clean up. NYC is full of liberals, so naturally its an eyesore.

[@glaxxico907]

Cities mean that people take up less space (leaving more land for wildlife)

[@davidcummings6299]

@@glaxxico907 Please try to remember “ Humans “ are also a Natural part of the environment..! City’s have a lot more in Common with a Ant Hill something only mindless insets are intreated in. Just an Opinion.

[@stutterfly4722]

@@davidcummings6299 Insect brain opinion that is.

[@davidcummings6299]

@@stutterfly4722 Said the Lemming

[@gregorywilson1114]

BUILD THE WALL❗❗

[@wendiwonderly1419]

I predicted that if trump ever started his border wall it would never be finished and eventually torn down. It reminds me of the biblical Tower of Babel. Just an ugly monument to hubris. More people, more scars upon the land

[@Soma81]

God is behind a Border wall

[@craigevan9649]

As if an interstate highway isn’t an equivalent barrier to wildlife...

[@richardprofit6363]

It can be a barrier..but certainly NOT equivalent to an iron wall..and if one barrier is bad - is 2 okay? your comment doesn't really make sense when you think about it..

[@craigevan9649]

@@richardprofit6363 An iron wall doesn’t obliterate wild animals and birds like 70mph trucks do. Perhaps if our border and immigration policy was respected, we wouldn’t have this steel eyesore. And, NAFTA should have included a standard minimum wage for multi-national corporations in CAN-USA-MEX.

[@MultiBaseball1010]

They are, which is why they build greenways and bridges over many of them.

[@luperamos7307]

@@craigevan9649 You idiot. You do know that certain animals will fit through and others won't, right? You do understand how everything is interconnected in a chain, right? And you are talking about remote parts of the country. These interstates are not as difficult to pass at night time as you think. And there are loads of bridges running over them as well.

[@puppetmaster3371]

Usually, interstate highways have a tunnel underpass for wildlife.

[@manuelgrothe608]

12:08 if the migrant crisis doesn’t go as under control, one of the Generals or Admirals of the United States will declare a Anti-Cartel Military Coup

[@lynnmattingly2582]

And yet so many admire the 13,000 miles of the Great Wall of China, built by prisoner & slave labor over 1800 years with some 400,000 estimated dying during construction. That's what I love about irony - it's so ironic.

[@ConservativeAnthem]

Leftism creates self-identified heroes and geniuses.

[@Summitclym]

Exactly. Leftists only use disturbed earth for political reasons. The earth is resilient and heals itself as with the Great Wall.

[@ConservativeAnthem]

@@Summitclym Sounds like you went to a garden Party! j/k

[@wolfsoul11]

Yes, I can't believe how much this video glorified walls in other parts of the world, particularly one completed almost 400 years ago, while villainizing this one wall. So ironic. /sarcasm Tourists admire the Great Wall of China. No tourist is ever going to admire the Dumb Wall of Trump. If the Great Wall of China were proposed today, it would deserve no less outrage than the US border wall and I dare say that not a single person would have a different opinion of the two because the reasons for opposing both would be identical.

[@luperamos7307]

It's a historic sight. People even look at concentration camps. What's your point?

[@yessir6399]

The wall is not ugly but look at all the trash when it comes on the side of the wall. There is tons of garbage as they bring it across the border and leave it

[@ghrasshopper]

The most dangerous thing to mankind is man himself...

[@gymshoe478]

...said the thoughtless Liberal (fascist).

[@Jake-rs9nq]

I'm more worried about the fact that we paved enough of America to cover all of West Virginia in asphalt! Highways are FAR more destructive...

[@gymshoe478]

There will always be idiots like Jake.

[@brendaann727]

Yes, highways are horribly destructive to all living things! I'll be glad when there's no more of them. Hoping not any in God's Kingdom to come! We won't need vehicles right?

[@RC_928]

But highways won’t follow any agendas

[@bebe60602]

I love how they end with the dangling cut beam showing how absurd it all is. Human ego can be so destructive.

[@viralmemes9213]

Biden is now finishing construction.

[@viralmemes9213]

Do you love how the Biden Administration is now finishing it off after a promise not to ?

[@eldiantre7346]

Humans migrating into other humans territory can also be destructive.

[@tedthoman6580]

@@eldiantre7346 and constructive, and productive...

[@subsamadhi]

​@viralmemes9213 no he isnt dipshit

[@pjhaebe]

The “scar” in the dirt is nothing compared to the damage invaders are inflicting on this nation

[@osheridan]

I agree! The USA should be dissolved and its land returned to the Native Americans

[@frescoservice5124]

You mean participating in our workforce those invaders create jobs

[@lorriecarrel9962]

One thing is for sure,that wall is not stoping any human,only the animals

[@Soma81]

Prove it

[@juliedavis9399]

We are our own worst enemies

[@brendaphillips8194]

And the earth’s worst enemy.

[@EdgarKohl]

Thank you, you've said it best.

[@davidalvarado6507]

It all starts with education, if the masses were well informed about today's issues. Today's society would be completely different! Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today -Malcolm X

[@michaeleng3682]

Build that wall!

[@puppetmaster3371]

Yep all the result of the " STABLE GENIUS ".

[@carinduncan7594]

Our fuhrer

[@lorriecarrel9962]

Everything has a good and bad side,the border must be protected though

[@luperamos7307]

Why?

[@zombies4evadude24]

Poor choice of words, who is the bad side? Is there even a good side at all?

[@qualityquartz4690]

How is the wall senseless have you seen what’s going on hello wake up smell the coffee

[@Gpacharlie]

Or the Chai Tea?

[@crustycobs2669]

Spending taxpayers' money and destroying the environment was a major legacy of Trump.

[@babybobbiejeansmom]

And remember he stated several times Mexico would pay for it!

[@brendaann727]

The Border Patrol Agents wanted it to help them do their jobs & those who voted DJT in & paid taxes were for it too. He wouldn't have done it if not for that, he asked them all many times what they wanted.. But I do agree that DJT down-voted some good things that were for creation, including something that would have kept poisons out of our food.

[@5moufl]

This is so depressing.

[@jacobbartley]

8:42 looks like domestic sheep

[@Me97202]

That wall is a great big, ugly, ineffective, wasteful use of taxpayer money. And it doesn’t even do what’s it’s “supposed” to do. In history, this will be known as Trump’s Folly.

[@MarsFKA]

It already is, and Trump has gone down in history as America's greatest folly.

[@Soma81]

Your mom should have swallowed

[@jayfoden6943]

Hopefully they keep building more wall.

[@billyherrington1937]

This video is actually making me lose brain cells

[@captseamus]

Plastic bottles left on the border

[@thomaslueger801]

This destruction is just Godless and perverse.

[@davidhollenshead4892]

Like Donald Trump and his MAGA Hatters...

[@zombies4evadude24]

And the fact that so many Evangelicals supported the guy in the first place shows how heartless, uncaring and two faced many so-called “Christians” are in this country. Disgraceful…

[@gorillachilla]

Whites for ya

[@jimgoodman1845]

Distorted cortex is most dangerous weapon.

[@captseamus]

People trash everywhere

[@ocn2u]

This scar will not go away it has forever changed the landscape they cannot undo what has been done and time cannot undo what has been done

[@coldcatz]

The first blast already brakes my heart the rest it’s truly sad. The damage is irreversible. If not addressed promptly

[@mattdad8429]

You wanna go in halvsies on a plot of land out there? Look at all that prime real estate

[@IDNHANTU2day]

The Third affected me more than the first.

[@_Bruno_Cesar_]

Did the americans forget about the fauna? Dont they feel bad because their wildlife is dying, dont they feel the same pain deep inside their hearts? That cant be what americans want for their country, they need to think about it for at least a few seconds and for that to be possible, they need to be informed first. Please, keep doing your amazing job.

[@tonybloomfield5635]

Yep the wildlife in New York is in great shape. The environment there is pristine. This doco is a political stunt and inner urban dwellers are like sponges for this type of politically biased content.

[@CT-vm4gf]

Americans don’t care about their country, unless it involves capitalism.

[@AnaGomez-wf3un]

Really sad 😢 as a human destroying nature and animals.

[@Miguel_2112]

Every Big City in America was built in the same manner. Why don't you complain about that

[@agk1511990]

You should break down your house, plant tress on the land and go live in the forest 😂

[@311jbknight]

It seems we also violated a couple international treaties with Mexico involving Indian reservations, butterfly resting grounds for the monarch migration and wildlife migration routes the US and Mexico agreed needed protected. Trump and his version of the GOP will have this scar for hundreds of years.

[@Alecosaurio]

Most of the cases the impact is irreversible involving the use of dynamite in projects.

[@paillette2010]

As a person who used to ride across the boarder while training horses, this tragedy is so overshadowed by racism.

[@djayjp]

Usage of the term "overshadowed" here means that racism is the much bigger issue than the environment.

[@johnsmith1474]

Just really poor writing and lazy thinking. Your qualifier "a person who used to ride across the boarder while training horses" is a non sequitur as you use it. All you mean is, "I see this as racism." That's your right but is also nonsense, as the fence is racially blind. If you are trying to say that the policy of a secure border (which I agree this does not accomplish) is racist, you are just wrong. Borders are pretty much standard elements of every nation across history.

[@djayjp]

@@johnsmith1474 Harsh critique, but you are correct. Such a border could be considered a form of nationalism, but not racism.

[@johnsmith1474]

@@djayjp - Harsh critique is the best critique for willing learners. Nationalism is a good point, didn't come to mind but borders are so basic they don't qualify as nationalism in the critical sense of the term ie "abnormal, or overblown nationalism" including obsession with perceived grievances and glory.

[@djayjp]

@@johnsmith1474 Wellll Trump comes to mind. Other than the environmental issue (and cost...) I'm not saying it's necessarily wrong but it can be a slippery slope. Don't forget the platinum rule: treat others the way they would (reasonably assumed) like to be treated. Of course while not compromising objective truth. I'd wager you'd prefer this as well. Sometimes people aren't as knowledgeable or don't have the time to edit their comments as well as us (maybe they have better things to spend it on ha). I recommend always being cautious when it comes to personal criticism. I would just stick to the facts and avoid the subjective color commentary.

[@cleop2813]

tear down that f*cking Wall

[@marinalpinee2202]

Go pick up some illegals and have them live in your house then I will believe you

[@tonismith8240]

🖕

[@pampearson1793]

Yes, I wish we would. Great documentary. I am so tired of being heartbroken about what humans do to the rest of life on this planet.

[@mbvoorhees]

This is a ridiculous story.

[@achilleze]

yah crazy what Trump and his minions did.

[@uprightape100]

Thank you so much to all who worked on this doc.

[@seriouslyyoujest1771]

We’re fortunate to have Mexico as our neighbor. Wonderful for both countries. In fact if Canada, Mexico, and the USA kept our oil produced by our three countries we would be paying $2.70 at the pump. Let that sink in. Mexico is the only industrialized nation with young people.

[@devynodyssey7734]

Canada is giving safe haven to extremist and Mexico put 150 countries on our border. We should have a good relationship with our neighbors but that's long gone.

[@luperamos7307]

You just watched a video about environmental damage and then you talk about oil extraction? I don't get some people.

[@tonybloomfield5635]

@@luperamos7307 You are one of the people who prefer if to be extracted in other countries and then consumed in America with the added carbon footprint of transporting it. Yeah, that makes so much sense.

[@seriouslyyoujest1771]

@@luperamos7307 I have to agree with you. These ridiculous gas, and food prices, almost everything you touch, snd consume has gone up. I guess I’m obsessed on the ridiculousness of a President that would actually attack his own countries oil production. In our country these prices are an inconvenience, in others it’s food security. We’re only one election away, or not. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “ The people elect the government they deserve”. This too shall pass.

[@luperamos7307]

@@tonybloomfield5635 A lower oil price technically leads to higher consumption. So how is that environmentally beneficial? Is that the direction we should be going in?

[@swaterman08]

if they had walls everywhere except for the mountains people would use the mountains. 10 or 300 people cutting a hole and sneaking in, is better than 100k+ walking over. Its a statement so when they do sneak over they know they are breaking the law.

[@factorychip]

That's an amazing video. You did a great job of showing this thing

[@rcrabb2494]

A FEW HOLES IN THE WASTELAND OR 60,000,000 ILLEGALS .

[@mrliberty8468]

A beautiful wall that needs to be finished in 2024...

[@luperamos7307]

I thought he told you he would finish it in his first term? Incredible how you guys can be motivated by pure xenophobia.

[@sebtamgeospa]

Money completely wasted to destroy our precious environment. It’s shocking to see it. What a shame!

[@Soma81]

Yes your mom should lose the welfare

[@basilminder5075]

This was awesome! I loved the production! The wall.. no words needed

[@Soma81]

Wrong

[@viralmemes9213]

Democrats are finishing it off.

[@EdgarKohl]

Don't flatter yourself, the American spirit has gone down the drain, that means there is less Tourism than it used to because the majority of American have gotten fatter 😁

[@EdgarKohl]

@@viralmemes9213 or at least they'll take Credit for it 🚒

[@ladyjas6373]

The people who made this video live in houses where wild life was cleared out so humans could inhabit the area. I can’t even deal with this level of hypocrisy….

[@themroc8231]

Houses don't impede animal migration. You can walk around a house.

[@achilleze]

people live in a house - what lives in a wall? A wall serves no purpose.

[@pampearson1793]

This person isn't very smart.

[@achilleze]

@@pampearson1793 who is "this" person? You must be clear and coherent in your posts.

[@Svoboda119]

As a republican, I see this as an absolute win.

[@lostgamer9569]

and they started building it again for safety reasons.

[@mattdad8429]

Hilarious. It's like we're living a South Park episode sometimes.

[@veganconservative1109]

I doubt that's the reason. More like too many of those pesky deplorable brown-skinned peoples went and started voting the wrong way. The Left don't like it when you get all uppity and independent like that.

[@robnowe5464]

There are no Bison herds on the southern border so why are they showing a Bison herd and then the border wall in the south? There is no connection.

[@muddymo7641]

How about the giant windmills defacing our countryside,?

[@tonybloomfield5635]

And those beautiful solar farms using masses of land to feed energy into a 'not fit for purpose' grid.

[@veganconservative1109]

You mean the ones slaughtering our feathered friends so that ecologist amateurs can feel good about themselves?

[@deanrobertoleson4669]

NYC is a scar. And its people could not care less about Americans living near the border or the migrants. Until it costs them money or inconvenience.

[@PortmanRd]

"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction." Isacc Newton

[@CB-hp1zn]

i wounder if this guy drives down the highway???? and what kind of impact that road construction causes to the enviroment

[@dankbudwoi871]

kind of one sided

[@Soma81]

Yep They refuse to show the piles of Trash the Illegals Live Behind. They also live in Nice Homes

[@THEKING-tt5rp]

a wall needs to be built around New York City

[@killerb5726]

Time to make the wall bigger and more beautiful!

[@tanyalove2413]

Shared. Thankyou for sharing this story.

[@chrisbennett3601]

WHAT'S PETHETIC IS YOUR MANIPULATION ! 😎

[@flexman70]

Bro, I think you need to talk to border patrol and what they experience on a daily basis instead of making a one-sided documentary to narrate your feelings about the trump administration. Foh.

[@ArgentPure]

What a beautiful wall. Build more of it!

[@authenticalaskan76]

Finish the wall!

[@mmmad-me8qo]

Should do wildlife overpass or tunnels that are monitored and fortified for animal use only while still having the walls.

[@wretchedrabbit]

why do we only care about the environment along the border wall and not the environment where our cities are?

[@rowdy9379]

Build that wall.

[@Alexanderbuilds2001]

You had me until you said it was a racist monument. How is a wall racist?

[@bigtsperspective5831]

One small road construction crew is a a problem, Yet nothing is said about the interstate highway or other road construction. Just pointing at this…. 🤔

[@mattrobinson4663]

Pardon my ignorance, but how does the wall with it's current 'slat design' endanger plant life? I'm genuinely curious. Is it because plant reproduction is often times tied to animal movement and waste?

[@ainemcdonnelll]

Yes plants don’t walk around and so they cannot pollinate themselves. When furry animals roam around they carry pollen and brush off plants which pollinates them.

[@ht3111]

The new Great Wall of America

[@paillette2010]

Well, you are assuming that all plants use windblown or bird droppings as a form of carrying seeds or seed containing fruit. But the digestive tract is one major source as is burrs getting caught in fur of animals on the move. So if animals can't move along in to other areas, habitats are cut off.

[@johnsmith1474]

The scarring & disruption of the ground for the construction does not heal in these very dry locations for centuries. I would say it's hyperbole to call it endangering, more like changing. Unfortunately hyperbole is stock & trade of New Yorker videos.

[@jacobbartley]

Agreed. I’ve seen the wall, and find it horrendous. However, I think the same question can be asked for some of the small animals referenced as well. I think it is a stretch to claim they’re being impacted.

[@violantederojas6188]

This is sickening.

[@kamalkadode7277]

Donald Trump your NOT going to PARADISE because of those wild animals there's are thirsty and hunger because of you!

[@Soma81]

Trump is going to take his place next to God

[@michaelc9248]

The border wall is the only great thing ive seen the us goverment build in my lifetime

[@dm8057bk]

It's a shame that we need a wall. But... we need the wall.

[@danielgc1970]

Shame? I don't get it. It's a boundary between two countries. There's millions of square miles on either side.

[@tylerbort3025]

Thank you for this. I truly enjoyed watching the construction of the border.

[@nicholasalexander4482]

This is what happens when there are too many stupid minds in the world and they rally behind dumb ideas.

[@Soma81]

Yeah that is why they are democrats

[@never2yield20]

I am sure there are valuable minerals at the top and along the sides of those steep mountain ranges you showed the wall in. Maybe a crowd fund could be established to help promote mineral exploration on the Mexican side of those mountains. 🙂I live in AZ just south of Tucson. And if you ever visit Bisbee AZ, you can see huge areas blown up, dug out and excavated for the copper that was there. People do try to cross that desert, and they find bodies every year (the wall wasn't completed either) And yeah it can be easily cut with battery powered saws fairly easily. We can all thank Trump for building a monument to his freaking moronic ego. In these remote areas towers with night vision cameras and high resolution cameras hooked up to an AI photographic routine that detects human motion was all that was needed (and Border Patrol staffing to pick up those that were detected) Probably cost a few hundred million as opposed to billions. The wall was a few construction companies wet dream come true instead and it resulted in the disruption of the SW ecosystem they didn't give a crap about.

[@robforas]

Meanwhile, a lot of USA citizens come to Mexico working abroad, not paying taxes and causing gentrification. Don't get me wrong, they seek a better life, but this situation makes native people can't affort to live in the places they born, making them to migrate USA and its a never ending circle.

[@luperamos7307]

Solo elevan los precios en ciertas regiones y no en todos los mexicanos. Eso es capitalismo. Los mexicanos ricos y otros compran bienes raíces y luego suben los precios.

[@emmanuelmicron3685]

So....build a wall and block them!

[@andrewswift2683]

@@luperamos7307 Si, la misma cosa pasa in los EEUU tambien.

[@luperamos7307]

@@andrewswift2683 Verdadero. Pero no tienen opción de irse a otro lado.

[@4672-m9f]

new yorkers are the scar ,everywhere they haunt

[@johnburrows5119]

TEAR DOWN THIS WALL! Restore the natural environment.

[@IDNHANTU2day]

And fk it, let everyone in.

[@keldonator]

Last seen jaguar was in 2015... Lol this is just a bunch of lies and drama.

[@lysas781]

This is so sad and heartbreaking. All to satisfy the ego of a malignant narcissist. A two year old with a tantrum problem who cares for absolutely nothing and no one but himself.

[@Soma81]

Canada has a Border Wall Go break in and see how they do it

[@skyislandaz]

LOFL...Biden is now changing his tune and to continuing to building the wall. He has to b/c of the undeniable consequences of letting 100s of thousands of illegal aliens run roughshod thru the area. The reality is a country must protect its borders or that country will disintegrate. No matter how much touch-feely sentiment you slather on, the harsh reality will soon show thru.

[@brendaann727]

Border Patrol Agents were asked what would help them do their jobs better so they wouldn't be so overwhelmed. They wanted a wall. If they had of said anything else, it wouldn't have proceeded at all.

[@temsulongchar785]

It was so heart breaking to watch this, especially on seeing the dead animal at the foot of the fence.

[@veganconservative1109]

I wonder how many animals are being slaughtered by illegals. Not just wild ones either.

[@mohamedibrahim1768]

I hope the next doc is about that gaza wall there and 40,000 ppl who faced death

[@gerharddehls]

so depressing...

[@afterthestorm221]

In theory it sounds like a possible solution but in practice it's a ridiculous expenditure of the land, time, effort, and money.

[@IDNHANTU2day]

Alternative solutions please. Please respond with one.

[@finalfantasy1912]

@@IDNHANTU2day Liberals aren't interested in one they want the human trafficking, drugs and degeneracy to continue.