Political Quotes

“It was. And he said, you know: That wasn't just old growth. That was virgin forest. Where are the folks who normally care about the environment? Why aren't they saying anything? And what I found really interesting, he talked about some of the other environmental problems with all the trash and so forth. Well, the next day, we were talking to border security, and the fellow who was in our car started talking about how once they put the wall up and made it more secure, it was amazing. It just took a few years for the wildlife to come back. {time} 2045 Apparently, where they cross on a regular basis and are having lay- bys--that is where they hang out until they move on to the next camp, and they leave all their trash and stuff there--a lot of the wildlife had just disappeared. But once they started having a fence like this or the ability to have a road into certain areas and they cut that off, all of a sudden, the wildlife started coming back. He showed me a picture on his phone that he had taken of a bear. He said: That wasn't here 5, 6, 10 years ago. Now they are back. We have big cats. We have bear. It really is amazing. He didn't know that, the day before, I had been talking to a rancher about similar issues, that it is a real detriment to the environment. Then the other thing that probably won't get a lot of attention is that, even if we are not able to build the wall everywhere we want, it channels the folks.…”