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flyingfysh

(1,990 posts)
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:22 PM Feb 2019

Trump is going after the butterflies!!

The US government is moving heavy construction equipment onto land belonging to the National Butterfly Center to work on the border wall. See https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/border-wall-work-starts-at-national-butterfly-center/ar-BBTau85. This started yesterday.
Here is some of the story:
The Trump administration is waiving 28 environmental laws to build the wall. Defenders of Wildlife sued the Trump administration in November saying the government doesn’t have the authority to waive those acts.
On ExpressNews.com:Border wall will not hinder access to National Butterfly Center, agency says
A Customs and Border Protection news release published on the center’s Facebook page confirms that “heavy machinery may be seen entering the Rio Grande Valley as early as Monday” in preparation for the “levee wall system.”
“The equipment will be utilized for construction on federally owned land,” it reads.
But Burnett and Marianna Wright, executive director of the center, dispute that any of the Butterfly Center’s land is federally owned yet.

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Trump is going after the butterflies!! (Original Post) flyingfysh Feb 2019 OP
MF45 doesn't give a crap about babies and children MontanaMama Feb 2019 #1
Of all the horrors inflicted upon us by these monsters, this is the WORST. CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2019 #2
can they actually do this shit? dhill926 Feb 2019 #3
Trump may be planning to declare an emergency flyingfysh Feb 2019 #5
Kick so more folks can see this. CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2019 #4
He needs to be chased down with butterfly nets. Coventina Feb 2019 #6
Can't take much more. Every day. A new assault. I hate the Deplorables. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2019 #7
The sanctuary may be safe Gothmog Feb 2019 #8

MontanaMama

(23,322 posts)
1. MF45 doesn't give a crap about babies and children
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:24 PM
Feb 2019

stolen from their parents, why would care at all about a butterfly? He is a monster surrounded by drooling, knuckle dragging cultists. Nothing should surprise us.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,637 posts)
2. Of all the horrors inflicted upon us by these monsters, this is the WORST.
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:27 PM
Feb 2019

I love love love butterflies.

And to see their refuge torn up for this criminal enterprise of a wall hurts more than I thought possible.

THESE CRIMINALS MUST BE STOPPED.

dhill926

(16,346 posts)
3. can they actually do this shit?
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:56 PM
Feb 2019

doesn't Congress have to appropriate the money? The fuck is going on here...

flyingfysh

(1,990 posts)
5. Trump may be planning to declare an emergency
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 06:51 PM
Feb 2019

I suspect that the emergency law wasn't very well thought out, so there may be all kinds of junk he can take advantage of, especially if he is the only one who decides what is an emergency.
We'll know more tomorrow night.

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