Interior officials downplayed federal wildlife experts’ concerns about Trump’s border wall, documents show

Federal government scientists raised red flags last year about President Donald Trump’s proposed wall for the U.S.-Mexico border, suggesting it could harm the habitats of imperiled species living in the ecologically diverse region. Constructing a physical barrier in southern Texas, some said, should be avoided if possible.But a number of those concerns did not make it to border officials considering the wall's construction.Interior Department officials stripped from a key letter to U.S. Cu