Activists spent 70 days sitting in a huge tree in Arizona, trying to prevent the construction of Trump’s border wall.

According to The Washington Post, more than 50 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrived at the camp — an excavator cut down a 150–250-year-old poplar tree that activists called “Grandma.”

Law enforcement detained around 10 protesters, while roughly as many others were fined.

The activists were protesting the destruction of the natural environment and areas through which wild animals migrate.

❗️The construction of the wall is part of a $46.5 billion project by Donald Trump’s administration. A representative of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that, before work began, specialists had not found any active nests of migratory birds.

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