Activists occupied this tree for months to save it from Trump’s border wall
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For more than two months, activists sat in the branches of a giant cottonwood tree along the Mexico border in an effort to block federal contractors from knocking it down to make way for President Trump’s border wall. That standoff just came to an end. https://wapo.st/4i6D28C
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