Construction continued along the border wall with Mexico, championed by then-President Donald Trump, on Jan. 12, 2021 in Sasabe, Arizona.
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The Fight for the Future of the Borderlands
Under a Biden administration, what will become of Trump’s partially constructed border wall — and the communities and ecosystems that live around it?
In Alamo, Texas, then-President Donald Trump took the stage, a row of U.S. Border Patrol cars and a stretch of border wall painted black behind him. A week after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, he had returned to the Southern border for the final curtain call of his tumultuous presidency.
“We can’t let the next administration even think about taking it down ... I don’t think that will happen,” he said in the Jan. 12 speech. “I think when you see what it does and how it’s so important for our country, nobody is going to be touching it.”