Budget deal could protect Catholic chapel, wildlife refuges from border wall

[Judi Lynn]

Source: UPI

FEB. 14, 2019 / 3:51 PM

By Patrick Timmons

EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Wildlife, butterflies and a historic church could win a last-minute reprieve against imminent border wall construction if Congress passes, and President Donald Trump signs, the bipartisan spending bill circulated Thursday.

The bill includes a section prohibiting "construction of pedestrian fencing" in the Santa Ana and Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuges, Bentsen State Park, the La Lomita Historical Park and the National Butterfly Center.

In these locales, areas of native habitat would be destroyed because of border wall construction.

Last year, Congress authorized funding for construction of 18-foot-high bollards on the Rio Grande levee system in South Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection fence designs include a 150-foot enforcement zone, access roads and floodlighting.

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/02/14/Budget-deal-could-protect-Catholic-chapel-wildlife-refuges-from-border-wall/4361550172937/

[regnaD kciN]

1. But won't Trump's national emergency declaration overrule that...?

If so, you can bet those will be the first places bulldozed, to create (in the words of Netanyahu and his pals) “facts on the ground” before the courts can stop it.