Donald Trump's accelerated border wall project has done what Indigenous leaders and archaeologists feared it would do. In the Arizona desert, construction crews working under federal contract have bulldozed part of a sacred Native American ground etching believed to be more than 1,000 years old.
Customs and Border Protection has confirmed that on 23 April 2026, a contractor 'inadvertently disturbed' the Las Playas Intaglio, a rare desert geoglyph west of Ajo, Arizona, along the US-Mexico border.
