The butterflies that could stop Trump's wall

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

The butterflies that could stop Trump’s wall

Anthony Zurcher
North America reporter
3 April 2019

The obstacles to President Donald Trump's border wall are not confined to the four walls of Congress. As areas are cleared to start building new sections, some landowners, including a butterfly sanctuary, have sued to stop the construction.

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The butterfly centre, of which Wright is the director, sits on 110 acres near the southern tip of Texas - an area of low-lying marshes, brush and scrub forests, offering a variety of ecosystems that provide ample habitat for migratory species of all shapes and sizes.

It is also flush along the Rio Grande River, which forms more than 1,260 miles (2027 km) of the 2,000-mile border between the United States and Mexico.

That puts the small, private environmental preserve in the centre of a raging debate over immigration and national security - and whether and where to build Donald Trump's oft-promised border wall.

"It is a war zone," Wright says. "That's what the government wants it to appear to be. It's all theatre. So they've got to have all the actors, all the costumes and all the props."

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47736573

[akraven]

1. We don't get that many here but they shape hope.

I love flutterbyes!

[Karadeniz]

2. "It's all theater."

Can anyone remember when Trump staged one of his building sites? I can't remember the details, but it was to impress someone or authority. This is the kind of dishonest thing he's done forever. Crook.