During his single term as president of the United States, Donald Trump made it a point to repeal as many environmental protections as he could and actively ignore the rest so he could boost the failing coal industry and build his wildly ineffective border wall. Now Mother Nature has gotten its revenge. Across parts of the Arizona border, heavy rains and powerful winds from a record-setting monsoon season have literally blown the doors right off Trump's signature immigration policy.
José Manuel Pérez Cantú, the director of the nonprofit Cuenca de Los Ojos, told Earther that at least six gates on the fence near San Bernardino Ranch, located between Douglas, Arizona, and the San Bernardino Wildlife Refuge, which sits right on the U.S.-Mexico border, were felled by rain. According to a report from the Tucson Sentinel, more gates throughout Southern Arizona got knocked off their hinges and pushed open by flood water and mud. The rushing waters have also left debris littered throughout the parts of the wall that have remained standing.
