Contractors working on Trump's border wall are pointlessly blowing up chunks of Arizona that they won't have time to actually build on

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Contractors working on Trump's border wall are pointlessly blowing up chunks of Arizona that they won't have time to actually build on

12/6/20
Contractors rushing to finish sections of President Donald Trump's border wall before he leaves office are pointlessly destroying vast tracts of wilderness, campaigners have told Business Insider. Activists who oppose the construction along the US-Mexico border pointed out that work has continued even after President-elect Biden's victory has essentially doomed the project. They told Business Insider that Arizona areas are caught in a particularly destructive phase, in which workers are using explosives to access mountains in anticipation of building new barriers there. Biden has pledged to end wall construction when he takes office on January 20, in just over six weeks. According to the campaigners, that is too little time to start building anything - with the likely outcome that the contractors will detonate miles of once-pristine landscape only to walk away. In Arizona, the easy construction - on flat land - is complete. To fulfill Trump's promise of 450 miles of wall by the end of the year, construction companies now face far more difficult mountainous terrain. Tons of dynamite is being used to blast access roads to the sites, let alone prepare the sites themselves. The two main companies constructing the wall in Arizona - Fisher Sand & Gravel and Southwest Valley Constructors - did not respond to a detailed request for comment from Business Insider.

Basically, these two politically-connected companies are blowing up the Arizona countryside in order to keep billing the government for "work" before the Biden administration takes over and ends their golden goose project.

Taxpayers and the Pentagon are being ripped off by Fisher Sand & Gravel, Southwest Valley Constructors, Trump, and the GOP.