could be impacted. congress is deciding whether the emergency order to build the wall will hold. it s rockets and butterflies. here s the trip to see those fluttering little guys. on the banks of the rio grande is a hundred acre pocket of life, unlike any in north america. for butterflies, it s like the movie fantasia. everything is in bloom in the fall. you have to walk and talk with your hand over your mouth so you don t suck in a butterfly. this is the tip of the funnel for these beautiful little migrants like the monarch which flies thousands of miles back and forth from mexico to montana and wisconsin. we have the little skipper right there. as director, the only thing mariana wright used to worry about was pointing them out to school kids. now she gets hate mail. a lot of [ bleep ] you and
cut off and isolated by giant wall. reporter: along a quiet stretch of the rio grand in south texas there s a place home to butterflies. hundreds of different species and mariana wright has spent inlast two years from keeping the border wall from cutting through the 100 acres in the national butterfly center in texas. they ll be starting on it this federal piece of land. reporter: last year congress approved the construction of new border barrier in the rio grand valley. part of the wall was supposed to cut right through the butterfly, leaving some of the property south of the border wall and some north. government used eminent domain to seize the necessary land to build the wall, much to the dismay of the center s director. they re seizing the land of