Anthony
Zurcher North America reporter
3 April
2019
The
obstacles to President Donald Trump's border wall are not confined to the four
walls of Congress. As areas are cleared to start building new sections, some landowners,
including a butterfly sanctuary, have sued to stop the construction.
Marianna
Trevino Wright sits on a bench near a wooded section of the National Butterfly
Center and begins identifying animals.
Scissortail
flycatchers, green jays, olive sparrows and clay-coloured thrushes swoop by,
pecking at oranges set out as a snack and splashing in a bubbling fountain.
From the tree branches above, great-tailed grackles screech and whistle like
avian car alarms.
Closer to
the earth, a menagerie of butterflies flit among the nearby flowering bushes.
Zebra Heliconians and large orange sulfurs; queens and red-bordered pixies.
Then
there are the other sights and sounds at the centre.
The hum
of a US Department of Homeland Security helicopter high overhead. Border Patrol
agents buzzing by on motorcycles and ATVs, their faces obscured by masks and
goggles, pistols at their side.
The
rumble of trucks dragging tyres behind them, smoothing dusty roads so the
footprints of interlopers can more easily be spotted.
A government
powerboat, with menacing .30-calibre machine guns on its deck, roaring down the
river.
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