Image shows Father Roy Snipes sitting outside the small, white chapel with the BBC's Gary O’Donoghue
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Father Roy Snipes is known locally as the Cowboy Priest - he resisted plans to seize chapel land to build Trump's border wall

ByGary O’DonoghueChief North America correspondent in the Rio Grande Valley
  • Published19 minutes ago

It was just before dawn in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, and the congregation were arriving for the Friday service at the tiny La Lomita Catholic Chapel.

The whitewashed building, which has been here since the days of the American Civil War, rises from the surrounding scrub and sits about 200 yards from the Rio Grande river itself.