Monarch butterfly caterpillars consist entirely on a diet of milkweed species, which has been added to the list of Endangered and Threatened Plants.
Prostrate milkweed, asclepias prostrata, is a rare plant that only grows along the Texas and Mexico border. It gets its name from the fact that it grows so low to the ground .
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has disagreed publicly with the listing of prostrate milkweed as an endangered species, as the species has become subject to public debate. During open commenting as part of the process of naming the species to the endangered list, Paxton's office submitted two comments, along with two comments from Texas Parks and Wildlife — both related to private land ownership.
Paxton's office further commented that two environmental impact analyses conducted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection concluded that construction activity, including building roads or a border wall, would have"minimal or no significant impact on vegetation, including the prostrate milkweed."Biden’s new CBP One app panned for trapping asylum seekers in ‘daily lottery system’
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