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How A Butterfly Sanctuary Became The Center of a Border War, Part One

It Could Happen Here

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The Border Wall Is a Waste of Moneys, Ineffective and Irresponsible

The border wall is built miles inside the united states. That border patrol picks up ladders every day. The butterfly centre isn't one of the hard places, but marianna has found dozens of identity documents in evidence bags labelled department of homeland security. She says that people aren't dumping them. They are being stripped of their documents when they are detained. In southern california, mountains and valleys are simply skipped. The wall stretches across the flatlands. In between, people are forced to cross in these gaps in the hardest places, and as a result, many of them die. We're over 400 miles of brand new wall. It's been catastrophic.

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