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In South Texas, Threat of Border Wall Unites Naturalists and Politicians
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/us/in-south-texas-threat-of-border-wall-unites-naturalists-and-politicians.htmlMISSION, Tex. — Last month, Marianna Wright, the executive director of the privately owned National Butterfly Center here, discovered survey stakes on the property marking out a 150-foot-wide swath of land.
Ms. Wright later encountered a work crew cutting down trees and brush along a road through the center. The workers said they had been hired by United States Customs and Border Protection to clear the land.
“You mean my land?” Ms. Wright asked, before kicking them out.
A few days after that encounter, she was visited by a border official who informed her that the crew had a right to be on the land and would be returning — next time accompanied by armed Border Patrol agents.
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