Border Patrol threatened landowners in Lochiel, Arizona, regarding the occupation of cottonwood trees.
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Behind the BastardsOct 3, 2026
None of the provided sources report that Border Patrol threatened landowners in Lochiel over the cottonwood occupation, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted.
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What was said
… this case, these cottonwoods are several hundred years old, and there used to be a contiguous canopy between what is now Mexico and what is now the United States. At one point, there was a tree sitter in Mexico, also occupying one of those cottonwood trees. They were asked by landowners to come down after those landowners were threatened by Border Patrol, according to people I spoke to on the ground, but the tree sit in the United States side is still ongoing. In between those two trees, there were other old cottonwoods that were they weren't cut down; they were pushed or pulled down by excavators. …
Behind the Bastards · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The source passage is the claimant's own secondhand report ('according to people I spoke to on the ground') that landowners were threatened by Border Patrol, and it ties the threat to a tree sitter in Mexico who was asked to come down. The extracted claim drops that Mexico-specific context.
Context. Coverage describes Border Patrol raiding the protest camp on private land and arresting protesters, and says the camp used permission from a private landowner, but none of it reports Border Patrol threatening landowners.[1][2][3][4]
Context. The Santa Cruz County sheriff's response letter says his office found no threats to federal employees or contractors. That concerns federal employees, not landowners, so it does not address the claim.[5]
Sources
5 sources: 5 not rated
- 1Arrests, tear gas and sunrise prayer: Protests and border wall ...azpm.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 2Final “grandmother” cottonwood toppled, protesters arrested in Lochielcalonews.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 3Lochiel border wall protest camp closes in Southern Arizonatucsonspotlight.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Workers destroy the last cottonwood tree at Arizona border wall siteazcentral.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Santa Cruz County sheriff: Arizona-Mexico border protests are a federal issuekjzz.org · not rated · cited for: context
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