Cuellar aims to stop Border Wall going up next to SpaceX site
BROWNSVILLE, RGV – Congressman Henry Cuellar is working to protect the SpaceX project at Boca Chica Beach from being stranded on the wrong side of President Trump’s proposed Border Wall.
Cuellar, a Democrat from Laredo, is the only congressman on the special House-Senate homeland security conference committee to represent a U.S.-Mexico border district.
He secured language in a Democratic proposal to prevent wall funding in protected areas along the border.
“The Vista del Mar Ranch tract of land of the lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, intended to be home to a SpaceX commercial spaceport, stands in the path of President Trump’s border wall plans,” a Cuellar news release states.
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