Cemeteries and the wall

There are a few spots where the wall either cuts off or potentially will go over cemeteries.

There is this cemetery and site with the underground railway
near Pharr

Trump's Border Wall Would Destroy Historic Gravesites in South Texas

A stop on the Underground Railroad and an early African-American burial site in South Texas are endangered by the first section of Trump's border wall.

The Intercept

Also of interest to native americans

Native American tribe fears border wall will destroy historic cemetery - UPI.com

Members of a Native American group have camped out for a month in a South Texas cemetery to protect graves and a chapel from border wall construction.

UPI

Another cemetery near San Juan (might be the same?)

Texas woman's family may be exhumed from historic cemetery in path of Trump's border wall

The Eli Jackson Cemetery is feet from a levee where Customs and Border Protection’s new fencing is scheduled to be constructed this year.

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Another cemetery cut off near Brownsville

Border wall has choked off historic Texas cemetery with 2 dozen veterans, critics say

For more than a year now, volunteers have maintained a historic cemetery that sits past a section of border wall in south Texas. The cemetery includes the graves of nearly two dozen veterans. One volunteer believes the wall discourages people from visiting.

Fox News

Also potentially several more

Cemetery islands: Border wall separates Texans and their ancestors

Some of these forgotten cemeteries are located in between the border wall and Mexico's border in what is technically U.S. soil, but virtually a 'no man's land.'

kvue.com

Wall Folly

do border walls work?

Cemeteries and the wall

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