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FirstLight

(13,362 posts)
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 10:21 PM Feb 2019

Bulldozers showed up last night to start destruction/construction of Butterfly Refuge for Border Wal

What the actual FUCK!

Via News & Guts:

Destruction On National Butterfly Center Could Begin This Week To Make Room For Border Wall

"If Donald Trump succeeds in erecting a giant wall in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas in an effort to stop human migration, it could instead destroy an ecosystem that provides sanctuary for some of the loveliest and most delicate creatures on Earth: butterflies.

That’s because the promised 36-foot-tall steel and concrete wall would cut straight through The National Butterfly Center, on the southern edge of Mission TX — cutting off many butterflies and other species unable or unwilling to fly over it.

(snip)

The San Antonio Express-News reports that “a local Mission law enforcement officer” told a community organizer that the Center, which has long been private property, “is all federal land now.”
The Center’s executive director, Marianna Treviño-Wright, disputes that claim — although the federal budget for fiscal year 2018 approved funding for 14 miles of border wall through Hidalgo County, where Mission and the Butterfly Center are located. Some heavy construction equipment has already been moved into the grounds.


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Bulldozers showed up last night to start destruction/construction of Butterfly Refuge for Border Wal (Original Post) FirstLight Feb 2019 OP
I'm so sorry. :( Cha Feb 2019 #1
would calling state or feds even help? FirstLight Feb 2019 #2
Bastards bdamomma Feb 2019 #3
300+ years of damage to the Joshua Tree NP wasn't enough, no amount of death, destruction and agony Maru Kitteh Feb 2019 #4
Is Russia paying for THIS WALL? democratisphere Feb 2019 #5
That wall will come down bdamomma Feb 2019 #9
They do these things on purpose. Why else pick that particular site of all possible? enough Feb 2019 #6
"Make The Libtards Cry Again"... regnaD kciN Feb 2019 #7
More division bdamomma Feb 2019 #10
This has bdamomma Feb 2019 #8
What Texas Rep bdamomma Feb 2019 #11
The sanctuary may be safe Gothmog Feb 2019 #12

FirstLight

(13,362 posts)
2. would calling state or feds even help?
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 10:26 PM
Feb 2019

How can these people not even be allowed the LEGAL RIGHT to fight Eminent Domain!?

I'm gonna make some calls tomorrow for sure, snowed in...may as well !

bdamomma

(63,919 posts)
3. Bastards
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 10:27 PM
Feb 2019

we should bulldoze them. That is a protected area isn't it??? How can these jerks be so rude??? Where are the organizations to protect the butterflies??? Sickening, killing God's creatures.

Maru Kitteh

(28,342 posts)
4. 300+ years of damage to the Joshua Tree NP wasn't enough, no amount of death, destruction and agony
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 10:27 PM
Feb 2019

is enough for this tyrant.

enough

(13,262 posts)
6. They do these things on purpose. Why else pick that particular site of all possible?
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 10:37 PM
Feb 2019

They love to harm other beings, and then gloat.

bdamomma

(63,919 posts)
8. This has
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 11:14 PM
Feb 2019

Miller's stamp on it.

Ravaging our country and everything that we hold dear.

He has to go and all of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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