Tree-sit protest against border wall branches into Mexico
- Sonoran Desert Press Office
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Before a giant cottonwood tree was toppled Monday on the U.S. side of the border for wall construction, a banner hung between Fremont cottonwood trees on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border at Lochiel, Arizona, as part of a tree-sit protest.
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The Arizona tree-sit protest has just entered its fourth week in the almost-ghost town of Lochiel, where a border wall contractor late last month used heavy machinery to topple three towering cottonwoods.
A giant cottonwood along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona was knocked down by heavy equipme…

