Beto O'Rourke solicits photos of habitats at risk from Trump's wall

The photos poured in from the Chihuahuan Desert to the Gulf of Mexico and through all the canyons in between, snapshots of a nearly 2,000-mile border now at the center of a potential government shutdown Friday.

For the better part of the last month, the scenes along the U.S.-Mexico border playing on cable television have featured migrants fleeing tear gas or climbing fences as President Trump escalates his demands that Congress fund the wall. But late Thursday, U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso, who fell short last month in his Senate bid against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, sought to offer an alternative vision.

“Where would they build the wall?” O’Rourke wrote on Twitter. “Whose home or ranch or farm are they going to take to build it? Which communities and habitats are they going to destroy?”

“Let the rest of the country see what’s at stake,” he said.

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