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US judge rules against butterfly sanctuary opposed to Trump's wall
The Times ^ | February 15, 2019 | Agence France-Presse

Posted on 02/15/2019 2:07:39 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Edited on 02/15/2019 8:38:22 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

A US judge ruled Thursday against a butterfly sanctuary that had sued to keep President Donald Trump's proposed border wall from cutting the refuge in two.

For months the National Butterfly Center has been arguing that the wall would be devastating for those insects and other creatures living in this habitat in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.


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1 posted on 02/15/2019 2:07:39 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If only the butterflies had wings and could fly over the wall... :(


2 posted on 02/15/2019 2:22:20 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The ruling:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5739636/2-14-19-North-American-Butterfly-Assn-Opinion.pdf


3 posted on 02/15/2019 2:29:16 AM PST by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The unicorn contingent would rather save the local
un-endangered wildlife than the people of America.
4 posted on 02/15/2019 2:30:26 AM PST by amihow
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Walls do not keep flutterbys out.

There is no federal act which actually effects the butterfly at all.

How did it even get to trial. A preliminary motion should have vacated the Complaint.


5 posted on 02/15/2019 2:33:33 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As some other poster said in effect: build the wall/fence up to each side (east/west) of the “sanctuary” and put up signs saying in Spanish, “Enter Here”. Watch the “sanctuary disappear ...


6 posted on 02/15/2019 2:38:11 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Since butterflies have been reported at heights of over 1,000 feet, I believe that a 30 foot fence should not be much of a challenge for them.


7 posted on 02/15/2019 3:18:52 AM PST by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Winning! More please.

JoMa


8 posted on 02/15/2019 3:28:12 AM PST by joma89
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But the Butterfly Sanctuary is one of the prohibited areas in the legislation to be signed today so unless a national emergency can override the legislation, the Sanctuary will have no wall.


9 posted on 02/15/2019 3:49:54 AM PST by Truth29
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How sad they are so adamant about exploiting the butterflies that they opposes cutting their exploitable area in half....
How odd a Judge gave a sane ruling.
Where’s Alice? I may join her at the tea party....


10 posted on 02/15/2019 3:58:13 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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“”On the same day the president announces he will declare a state of emergency, the federal judge throws out our case. We are not going away that easily!”, the butterfly center said in a tweet. “

Sounds like it was written for a Monte Python skit. Next up the “Killer Bees” from SNL.


11 posted on 02/15/2019 4:00:05 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Spool up the bulldozers!


12 posted on 02/15/2019 4:01:12 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t imagine that a wall is worse for the butterflies than having thousands of “migrants” tramping through, damaging the habitat and leaving trash all over the place.


14 posted on 02/15/2019 4:25:01 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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“On the same day the president announces he will declare a state of emergency, the federal judge throws out our case. We are not going away that easily!”, the butterfly center said in a tweet.

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Typical leftist. Use the legal levers to try and get what they want. When that doesn’t work, proceed anyway. Rule of law is just a cover for them. They do whatever they want.


15 posted on 02/15/2019 5:24:23 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Truth29
Then leave a gap in the wall and let it be stomped over and covered in empty water bottles and dirty diaperz like other crossing points. The butterflys would have been better off with the fence.

Also, is this the onion farm some activists bought a dozen or so years ago on the border? It's not like it is an old growth butterfly forest.

16 posted on 02/15/2019 5:27:25 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How crazy are we? Can’t have a protected border because of butterflies? What is going to be the tipping point on political insanity?


17 posted on 02/15/2019 5:29:19 AM PST by abclily
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To: Cowboy Bob

It’s a scientific fact that the butterflies always tap dance that part of their migration.

/just making crap up

:)


18 posted on 02/15/2019 5:35:17 AM PST by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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I have a 6 foot stockade fence around my dog yard.

Butterflies seem to want to be in my yard versus the that of the unfenced neighbor yard.

Therefore, empiric evidence suggests that butterflies like walls.
They feel safe.

:)


19 posted on 02/15/2019 5:37:46 AM PST by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: Candor7

I have a 6 foot stockade fence around my dog yard.

Butterflies seem to want to be in my yard versus the that of the unfenced neighbor yard.

Therefore, empiric evidence suggests that butterflies like walls.
They feel safe.

:)


20 posted on 02/15/2019 5:37:47 AM PST by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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