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| Dems Won’t Rule Out Endangered Species Act Suits To Block Trump’s Wall |
| 2017-01-28 |
| [DAILYCALLER] 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 im 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. "We’ll of course closely review Trump’s proposal," Margie Kelly, a spokeswoman for the National Resources Defense Council, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "Litigation is just one tool in our advocacy work, and we take nothing off the table," she said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Apart from birds and some flying insects, which a wall won't hinder, hardly any species migrate. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-01-28 18:26 |
| #8 Well the lefties and the greenies wrap them themselves in Darwin. Now I ask you, if survival of the fittest and selective adaptation are settled science, then some species will naturally die out because they are at an evolutionary dead end and will no matter what. Sort of stops the ESA in its tracks. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-01-28 14:57 |
| #7 ...would hinder the movement of endangered species migrating through their natural, cross-border habitats, Like Mexicans, Costa Ricans, Guatemalans... |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-01-28 14:34 |
| #6 What about the endangered white guys in California? We're being pushed out of our habitat. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-01-28 13:37 |
| #5 All this talk about walls and borders, A common myth amongst many is that they think that before the white man came to Afrika, non-whites lived in peace and harmony with nature and with each other in some sort of tribal, hunter-gatherer utopia. Of course if you believe the common myth, you will also accept the resultant legacy and never ending scourge of colonialism as the reason for failure and poverty. Both myths center on blame and feed one another. My apologies. Appears you've heard the song before. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-28 08:55 |
| #4 Back in the early 60's if two critters could mate and create a viable offspring, that was a specie. Today some coloring or altered bone structure makes it a unique species. So, I guess we don't have human 'races' but rather different species by the newer biological definition. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-01-28 08:33 |
| #3 Well, the ESA gave us back the Bald Eagles. But also killed off DDT, which enables malaria and Zika. Somebody's gotta report the second part. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-01-28 08:32 |
| #2 The Endangered Species Act has destroyed entire Industries (like the NW logging Industry). Besides some species *need* to go extinct - its entirely natural for them to do so. Time to make the ESA extinct. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-01-28 00:22 |
| #1 So rescind it. |
| Posted by: KBK 2017-01-28 00:10 |