1. United States
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The Border Wall Construction is a desecration. Stop the destruction. The Border Wall plans threaten the oldest inscriptions in North America. Please, Read this from the Guardian: Trump’s border wall construction threatens rock art as old as the pyramids: ‘The ancestors are still here’- - Roque Planas in Comstock, Texas Mon 24 Aug 2026 08.00 EDT. The article continues: "On an overcast summer morning, Carolyn Boyd, an archeologist at Texas State University, stood at the foot of a cave in west Texas, looking up toward a series of towering murals painted on a rock wall. Three massive human-like figures soared toward an overhang that had sheltered the painting from the elements since they were drawn here perhaps 4,000 years ago. An artist herself, Boyd knows how hard it would have been to paint these long, crisp lines. Before starting, the bands of Indigenous hunter-gatherers who lived in this west Texas valley, where the Pecos River empties into the Rio Grande, would have spent weeks pulverizing gypsum, hematite, limonite and manganese to make paint. They would have gathered massive quantities of sotol stalks to fold its fibers into scaffolding. The painting itself would have required teamwork and precision, with people at the bottom guiding artists on the wall as they painted figures stretching up to 30ft tall." This is truly a wonder. Did you know it existed? Do you want to allow this to be destroyed? America has survived for 250 years without a Border Wall and for more than 225 years without ICE. Trump's immigration policy is making NO ONE SAFER. By now government agents are committing more crimes than immigrants. Congressional fecklessness funding the Wall and ICE in the 'Big Beautiful Bill" and successive feckless appropriations will be studied by future historians as bad, even wicked, examples of the failure of ethics, reason, and proper deliberative process. Will the destruction of these rock paintings be your legacy? What are you going to do? Can the Approps Committees put the brakes on and save this monument? Please reply to let me know what actions you will take.