Thread: Power to Build Border Fence Is Above U.S. Law

Power to Build Border Fence Is Above U.S. Law
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: April 8, 2008

New York Slimes Whines About Building the Border Fence:

Securing the nation’s borders is so important, Congress says, that Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, must have the power to ignore any laws that stand in the way of building a border fence. Any laws at all.

Last week, Mr. Chertoff issued waivers suspending more than 30 laws he said could interfere with “the expeditious construction of barriersâ€

Environmentalists Whine About Building the Border Fence:

Rushing the Border Fence
April 8, 2008
By Roddy Scheer

Environmental groups say the border fence will negatively impact wildlife, water quality and vegetation.
www.sandiego.indymedia.org

Last week, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that the Bush administration was waiving compliance with some 30 environmental and land management laws to expedite the completion of a 470-mile-long fence along the U.S./Mexico border to keep illegal immigration in check. By invoking the waiver, DHS can forego the usual detailed reviews of how their project will affect wildlife, water quality and vegetation in the area, despite objections from biologists that the fence will disrupt wildlife migrations, including that of the endangered jaguar.

Two of the nation’s leading environmental nonprofits, Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club, consider such waivers unconstitutional, and are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in to block the waivers, which exempt the federal government from laws designed to ensure clean drinking water while protecting wildlife from habitat loss and land and waterways from contamination.

“It is this kind of absolute disregard for the well-being and concerns of border communities and the welfare of our wildlife and untamed borderlands that has forced [us] to take a stand,â€

Why is it that these folks are never concerned about millions of illegals trampling the environment and otherwise destroying and threatening it with fires, tons of garbage, human waste and everything else?

Why is it that these folks are never concerned about millions of illegals trampling the environment and otherwise destroying and threatening it with fires, tons of garbage, human waste and everything else?


And that's just the parking lot at Walmart !

Originally Posted by alleycat

Why is it that these folks are never concerned about millions of illegals trampling the environment and otherwise destroying and threatening it with fires, tons of garbage, human waste and everything else?


And that's just the parking lot at Walmart !

ROFLMAO!!!! Good one............

And yes, the parking lot at Walmart can be considered a migratory path for mammals