Latino heritage could be a casualty of a Trump revision
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (1.5 minute read) 
This happened today, and we need to keep an eye on it.
It’s an instance of Trump taking a stab at an Obama legacy, but U.S. Latino heritage could be collateral damage.
The Hill reports: “President Trump on Wednesday will order the Interior Department to review 20 years’ worth of monument designations on federal land across the country.
“Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told reporters he will consider whether monument designations at up to 40 sites should be ‘rescinded, resized or modified in order to better benefit our public lands.’”
They’re coming after the Bears Ears national monument because they don’t like what Obama did there. Everyone – archeologists, historians and the like – agree that Bears Ears is an important heritage site and much grass roots work was done to preserve it. While that wok was in process President Obama made it official, designating it a National Monument under the centuries-old Antiquities Act.
The problem is that he set aside 1.35 million acres of land and Republicans had a collective congressional fit, calling it a land grab. So now they want to un-do it. But in so doing they’ll review the 170 national monuments in 39 states that are listed by the National Park Service as Hispanic Heritage Sites, like the César E. Chávez National Monument pictured above.
The problem with that is obvious. We can’t let U.S. Latino heritage be revised – because that’s what could happen – as collateral damage of the spiteful stroke of a president’s pen.
We’ll be keeping an eye on this.
