McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record an NBC News
article on how the border wall is being planned to decimate the
National Butterfly Center in the wildlife corridor of the lower Rio
Grande Valley.
[From NBC News, July 26, 2017]
Border Wall Push Creates Flap in House--And at the National Butterfly
Center
(By Suzanne Gamboa)
Washington.--A national butterfly preserve is the latest
flashpoint in the border wall debate as Democrats accuse the
GOP of rigging the process to slip wall funding into a pack
of House spending bills possibly up for a vote this week. While there are not specific details on exactly where $1.6
billion proposed for President Trump's border wall will be
spent, an amendment sponsored by Rep. John Carter, R-Texas,
calls for $498 million to go to 28 miles of ``new bollard
levee wall'' in Hidalgo County in Texas' Rio Grande Valley--
home to the National Butterfly Center. The amendment also calls for $251 million to repair
secondary border fencing in the San Diego area and $38.2
million for planning future border wall construction. Another
$784 million is for 32 miles of ``border bollard fencing'' in
Starr County, Texas, also in the Rio Grande Valley. The butterfly center's executive director Marianna Trevino
Wright said she found a work crew on the butterfly center's
property last week, and she worried that their efforts might
be related to construction of the proposed border wall. The
workers had chain saws and work trucks and had cut and shred
brush, trees and plants, she said. Trevino Wright said she
found surveyor stakes and ``X'' marks on the property.
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