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A construction contract was awarded March 18, using money from the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” to build wall through the National Butterfly Center and the Santa Ana refuge, among other once-protected sites.

New from Michael Gonzalez, copublished with The Border Chronicle: https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-border-wall-rio-grande-valley/

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After 20 Years of Resistance, Trump Is Walling Off the Rio Grande Valley

Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by the “one big beautiful bill”—while the river itself is transformed by a floating barrier.

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Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️29m ago

“For months, I’ve been documenting the #DHS & their masked contractors installing buoys in the Rio Grande,” Bekah Hinojosa, a co-founder of the South #Texas Environmental Justice Network (SOTXEJN) [said]... “The Dept of Homeland Security is not being clear intentionally about what their plans are, what they’re deploying in the region, and so it’s up to us in the #community to track and document and #report on it.

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After 20 Years of Resistance, Trump Is Walling Off the Rio Grande Valley

Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by the “one big beautiful bill”—while the river itself is transformed by a floating barrier.

The Texas Observer