This is the outside podcast. The National Butterfly Center, near the U.S. Mexico border in Texas, is usually a peaceful place. Sitting on the banks of the Rio Grande, it has acres of flowering

native plants and is surrounded by sprawling onion, cabbage, and grapefruit farms. The center is a crucial stop for migrating butterflies.

You need to rest on their journey north. But in January 2022 someone else showed up.

Please put your mask back on. In 2020, someone else showed up.

Please put your mask back on.

I'm sorry.

I have my asthma, so it takes it.

Kimberly Lowe was a congressional candidate from Virginia

here for a photo op. and greeting her at the entrance was

Mariana Trevino Wright the head of the Butterfly Center. Usually her job was

stuff like maintaining the gardens, managing staff, and increasing membership.

When she took the position, she didn't realize how many political figures would be stopping

by for pictures.

I saw that y'all tried to drive back there on your own, that is private property, it is

posted by there.

But here they were.

You're not here to cause any problems, I'm sorry?

No, you are here to promote your agenda and your agenda is not welcome here.

So you're not for keeping the illegals out?

So you're not for helping with all these poor people in the humanitarian crisis?

That's what we're here.

So you're okay with children being sex trafficked and raped and raped and

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