Hey, what about our fence?
By Michelle Malkin • February 12, 2008 09:05 AM

After contacting several congressional staffers yesterday about the $1.4 billion stimulus/border security package for Mexico that I reported on yesterday, I can tell you this:

We’re screwed.

None of the staffers I contacted had even heard of it.

You might want to call them and suggest they get up to speed.

Capitol switchboard number: 202-224-3121.

Meantime, how’s our fence doing? It’s not doing anything. The enviro-zealots continue to stand in the way. Per the Arizona Republic:

The government plans to add 11 miles of border fence in Arizona this year, far fewer than what was built last year.

For months the government has been mum about much of its plans, but details emerged in recently released environmental assessments. Those documents, the first step in fence-building, reveal officials’ plans to add 7 miles of fence east of Nogales and 4 miles along the Colorado River, using a combination of pedestrian fence, vehicle barrier and access road improvements.

The effort is being criticized by two sides.

Environmentalists say the Department of Homeland Security is threatening endangered animals by ignoring environmental laws to build barriers across their habitats.

“I’m really now very concerned about an ecological disaster by blocking off this border,â€