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Armed Border Patrol agents arrested 10 demonstrators and destroyed the cottonwood “grandmother” tree on the Arizona–Mexico border.
After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson.
A giant cottonwood along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona was knocked down Monday, after authorities cleared out protesters trying to save the tree from destruction.