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    Trump doesn't let environmental laws stand in the way of border barrier construction

    by Anna M. Phillips and Molly O'Toole, Los Angeles Times Feb 15, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Over the last week, Marianna Trevino Wright has watched work crews drive through her butterfly sanctuary in the Rio Grande Valley to a nearby site where brush is being cleared for a planned six-mile stretch of border wall.

    Homeland Security has planned to build an 18-foot-tall steel and concrete barrier across the National Butterfly Center, cutting it in half. Those plans were blocked, at least for now, in the spending bill that Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed Friday, which specifically bars construction at the 100-acre site.

    It wasn't immediately clear if Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the border would upend that ban.

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