Trump Would Destroy This Historic Church to Get His Wall

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La Lomita Chapel is the heart of one Texas border town. It also may be the latest casualty in Trump’s demands for a border wall.

Pilar Melendez
01.10.19 4:58 AM ET

About 800 feet from the border, near a horseshoe bend in the Rio Grande separating the United States from Mexico, is the historic La Lomita Chapel.

The Catholic chapel, built in 1899 in Mission, Texas, is a white stone and wood single-room structure in the middle of an open field. It is now a tourist attraction because of its rich history as a site where Calvary of Christ missionaries performed baptisms, marriages, and funerals.

“Everybody sees this as our mother church and it’s forever sacred in our memory," Father Roy Snipes, a 73-year-old clergyman who leads a nearby Catholic church, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. “It’s the heart of our community,” he said. “It’s like a second home to me.”

But now the Trump administration wants to tear it down to make way for the president’s border wall.

“They are trying to bully us but we are not backing down,” said Snipes, who made his final vows nearly four decades ago at La Lomita. “The wall goes against our beliefs as Catholics and as Texans. We refuse to let them bulldoze our church for something that will harm people in need.”

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