The new border wall in San Rafael Valley, Arizona. No one I talk to seems to know that it is being built again. I guess it's just not newsworthy at this point?

30 feet above the ground, with 6 feet of concrete underground. Each of the posts, called "bollards", are filled with concrete. All of this new 27 miles of wall is painted black because Trump thinks it will get hot and therefore be unclimbable.

Fact check: most people get through the wall by cutting it with a cheap cordless grinder and those who climb over do so at night. This administration is beyond stupid.

#Border #Immigration #BorderWall #FuckTheWall

Went back to the San Rafael Valley in Arizona today, where they are building 27 miles of new border wall for no good fucking reason. I think I got a few of the shots I wanted, plus bonus thunderstorms in the afternoon. Have to process the shots from my DSLR, but here's a phone snap rainbow at sunset.

#Border #BorderWall #FuckTheWall #NoBorders

I did get a couple more interesting shots, though not of migrants this time. The U.S. wall casts a shadow on more than just the desert.

Grid Desert #3

#immigration #BorderWall #LandscapePhotography

Maintaining my Christmas tradition, this afternoon I went down to the U.S. border wall near Lukeville, AZ to do some photography. I was here two years ago and wrote a story about it https://www.mikaljakubal.com/christmas-at-the-wall
Now, it is deserted. The groups of hundreds of asylum-seekers per day coming over are no more.

The aid stations have been removed. It feels desolate.

#immigration #BorderWall

#billionaire and #Trump mega #donor Timothy #Mellon “contributed” $130 million to the #US #military to help pay #troops during the #GOP shutdown. Trump praised him as “a great #patriot,” but the math doesn’t lie: $130 million covers less than 7 hours of the #military payroll or around $100 per soldier. “That’s 6.7 hours of pay for our troops." Mellon also gave #trump $53 million for his #texas #borderwall https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html

#billionaire and #Trump mega #donor Timothy #Mellon “contributed” $130 million to the #US #military to help pay #troops during the #GOP shutdown. Trump praised him as “a great #patriot,” but the math doesn’t lie: $130 million covers less than 7 hours of the #military payroll or around $100 per soldier. “That’s 6.7 hours of pay for our troops." Mellon also gave #trump $53 million for his #texas #borderwall https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html

Congress set to hand Trump🚨BILLIONS to recruit more Gestapo #ICE#CPB agents. This atrocity is underreported & endangers millions of undoc #immigrants & US citizens.

Detaining & deporting more immigrants will be devastating: family members will be separated, communities lose their valued contributions, creates more financially insecure ppl, reduces the WF, restricts immigration, negatively affects the economy..
#Deportations#Detention#BorderWall#Surveillance#BBB#DHShttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-set-hand-trump-billions-recruit-ice-agents-rcna214990