The National Butterfly Center in South Texas will be closed "for the immediate future" because of baseless attacks stemming from a clash over immigration enforcement at the nearby U.S.-Mexico border, the organization said Wednesday.
For years, Marianna Treviño Wright has been battling anti-immigration groups who want to erect a border wall through her butterfly sanctuary. Then the death threats started coming.
<p>In singling out the Black elected officials who thwarted his bid to steal the election and are investigating his political and business affairs, Trump evoked the Reconstruction-era rhetoric of white southerns under attack, which, as Eric Foner wrote, justified a massive wave of racist political violence. </p>