Posted on 01/27/2017 9:13:25 AM PST by Zakeet
President Trump's political opponents may use existing federal laws designed to protect endangered species to stop him from building a border wall to stem the flow of illegal immigrants coming from Mexico.
Environmentalists say Trump's proposed border wall would hinder the movement of endangered species migrating through their natural, cross-border habitats, and activists aren’t above filing suit under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to stop the wall.
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"Litigation is just one tool in our advocacy work, and we take nothing off the table," she said.
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Jaguars and ocelots, for examples, are endangered species whose range extends along the U.S.-Mexico border. They are more abundant in Mexico than the U.S., so they could pose hurdles if portions of the wall cross through their habitats.
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"We will not stand by while Trump creates a Berlin Wall on America’s border," Kierán Suckling, CBD’s executive director, said in a statement. "We'll fight this Stone Age proposal in every way we can - and if necessary put our bodies in front of the bulldozers."
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Yes, time to get rid of such acts as this that are misused all the time to further political ends instead of used as their titles would indicate. Owls and snowy plovers have put enough people and small towns into poverty.
They occasionally come up into Arizona/NM along the mountain ranges, no they are not native here, they are a tropical animal.
Repeal the Endangered Species Act.
Actually, I support militarization of the border, with or without the wall.
This is the greatest danger to building the wall, constant delays in courts.
If we still had them in the original quantities and locations, we would have to worry a lot less about illegals as they would have been eaten by jaguars.
Every interstate highway in the country interferes with animal migration. It doesn’t take a lot of highway wall to stop a skunk trying to find his girlfriend in the middle of the night.
If ocelots ever go extinct, they will still be in a lot of crossword puzzles.
Electrified fence is so much more humane and less messy.
Environmental laws are Trump's prerogative now, sucklings!
That’s how they blocked the wall the last time.
Liberals only worry that a wall will increase the price of Cocaine they buy, and Mexican votes who help them win elections and keep power.
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