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US-Mexico border wall threatening rare wildlife

Sasabe (United States) (AFP) – Jaguars don't understand borders, but where the United States meets Mexico, they are having to adapt to them. Once the master of the Sonoran Desert, the animal is now struggling to survive in a landscape cut in two by a wall. The barrier, which former US president Donald Trump boasted he would make "impenetrable," does little to discourage the thousands of people from Latin America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe who arrive in the country every day, fleeing poverty and persecution. But, say conservationists, the fencing erected by successive administrations in W…