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Their property lines and leave a quarter mile stretch of the center's property wide open. but butterfly center officials say they're worried the trump administration will use the national emergency declaration to keep trying to close the gap, and they're worried about what it's doing to the other landowners who haven't been spared. >> this is a shame. this is a national disgrace. and the idea that it's going to happen and produce none of the purported benefit -- i mean, that's like going and buying a new car and driving it into a building. why would you do that? >> reporter: the butterfly cent...

The dismay of the center's executive director. they are seizing the land of tax paying citizens, and pushing the boundaries of mexico north of the rio grande river. something general santa ana was never able to do. trump is making america smaller. not greater. >> reporter: but the congressional spending bill offered a last-minute reprieve to the butterfly center and four other specific locations. for now, no border wall in the butterfly center. but wall will come right up to their property lines and leave a quarter mile stretch of the center's property wide open. but butterfly center officials...

A federal government rupp amuck that is messing in states' rights. now messing in private property rights. and from the very beginning of the founding of this country, this country was based upon the rule of law and private property rights. and for the federal government to trample both of those fundamental principles is just flat wrong. and as the attorney general of texas, i'm going to be weighing in, working side by side with private property owners to ensure that beth the rule of law and private property rights are respected by the federal government in the state of texas. >> interesting b...

Wow, it worked. all that work, thought and physical effort paid off. >> after 18 years, john list has been captured. and the town of westfield is in shock. timothy benford, co-author of "righteous carnage." >> that day i'm riding from here and going into town. i notice people talking across property lines, people on corners, an unusual sight. i pull up to one group and i say what happened? a woman turned to me and all she had to say was they got him. i knew instinctively who she was talking about. >> when he was captured, people were shocked. the community was elated. it was the talk of the to...

Molly line has more from jamaica, vermont. >> reporter: when tropical storm irene slammed the northeast, the engorged rivers in voermeermont new paths across the state and leaving behind a vastly altered land cape. >> all that is left of our home and yard is air. >> reporter: when the storm struck he returned to find his house in jamaica, vermont, gone. >> this was the family room and guest room and a full bath. >> reporter: now he has only legal and financial challenges. >> right now, i owe a mortgage, on a house that doesn't exist on land, that doesn't exist. >> reporter: and morrison is not...