Border Fence Threatens Wildlife

According to the AP:

ALAMO, Texas - Environmentalists have spent decades acquiring and preserving 90,000 riverfront acres of Texas scrub and forest and protecting the area's wildlife. Now they fear the hundreds of miles of border fences will undo their work and kill some land animals by cutting them off from the Rio Grande, the only source of fresh water.

A fence could also prevent the ocelots and other animals from swimming across the water to mate with partners on the other side.

Other examples of wildlife endangered by border fences include the common illegalis habitans which migrate north for many months gathering food to take back south when their migration cycle ends.

"Sometimes they don't go back down south after the migration cycle," said scientist Rob Marion.

"One only needs to look at some of the illegalis habitans species such as the curatio medica liberum, the pilferis employmentus, and the adversus assimulatio which can live for many, many years without adapting to their new surroundings."