Butterfly Preserve On The Border Threatened By Trump's Wall.

[Cattledog]

The National Butterfly Center, a 100-acre wildlife center and botanical garden in South Texas, provides a habitat for more than 100 species of butterflies.

It also sits directly in the path of the Trump administration's proposed border wall.

The federal spending bill approved in September includes $1.6 billion in 2019 for construction of the wall. In October, the Department of Homeland Security issued a waiver to 28 laws protecting public lands, wildlife and the environment to clear the way for construction to proceed.

The planned wall would cut the privately owned National Butterfly Center in two, with as much as 70 percent of its land sandwiched between the wall and the Rio Grande.

"It's going to be a no-man's land, Border Patrol's enforcement zone," says Marianna Trevino Wright, the National Butterfly Center's executive director. "They will clear everything. So it's not like all of this habitat is going to become Garden of Eden, undisturbed. It is going to be eliminated."

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[Stargleamer]

1. Republicans waste taxpayer money in so many ways. . .

Tax cuts for the extreme wealthy, nuclear weapons we don't need, stupid walls we don't need, etc.

[Gothmog]

2. Native American protesters marched to the National Butterfly Center in South Texas

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