Monday’s motion asks the judge to temporarily halt the government in its tracks before it damages the refuge’s property, delaying construction until the judge rules on the 14-month-old suit.
Contractors ripped a road into private property to reach land that had not been purchased.
Now, the road was used to cut off the private property by putting Customs and Border patrol locks on privately owned gates.
If construction is ever allowed to proceed, the refuge’s leaders contend their project will be devastated. An earthen river levee that runs through the 100-acre property would become a 30-foot concrete-and-steel border wall, bisecting the reserve and leaving more than two-thirds of the land stranded on the wrong side of the barrier. The wall will be littered with cameras and draped with at least 22-foot tall LED lights, a potential catastrophe for sensitive insects. Tourism to the center could crater, forcing the center to close and wasting 17 years of effort cultivating the refuge.
The motion is part of an existing lawsuit, filed in December 2017, that contends the wall is being pushed forward in an illegal and unconstitutional manner.
https://www.texasobserver.org/butterfly-trump-restraining-order-lawsuit-border-wall-texas/
In a motion filed late Monday, center director Marianna Trevino Wright says heavy machinery has been driving through their property for a week, including a road grader accompanied by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle. Wright alleged that someone had cut the lock on a center fence and replaced it with a lock belonging to CBP.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article226142555.html
They did not bother to follow the law, because breaking the law and violating the Constitution is the way tRump operates.
Contractors ripped a road into private property to reach land that had not been purchased.
Now, the road was used to cut off the private property by putting Customs and Border patrol locks on privately owned gates.
If construction is ever allowed to proceed, the refuge’s leaders contend their project will be devastated. An earthen river levee that runs through the 100-acre property would become a 30-foot concrete-and-steel border wall, bisecting the reserve and leaving more than two-thirds of the land stranded on the wrong side of the barrier. The wall will be littered with cameras and draped with at least 22-foot tall LED lights, a potential catastrophe for sensitive insects. Tourism to the center could crater, forcing the center to close and wasting 17 years of effort cultivating the refuge.
The motion is part of an existing lawsuit, filed in December 2017, that contends the wall is being pushed forward in an illegal and unconstitutional manner.
https://www.texasobserver.org/butterfly-trump-restraining-order-lawsuit-border-wall-texas/
In a motion filed late Monday, center director Marianna Trevino Wright says heavy machinery has been driving through their property for a week, including a road grader accompanied by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle. Wright alleged that someone had cut the lock on a center fence and replaced it with a lock belonging to CBP.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article226142555.html
They did not bother to follow the law, because breaking the law and violating the Constitution is the way tRump operates.
