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    Judge Clears Way for Border Fence Construction

    Judge Clears Way for Border Fence Construction
    Monday, December 12, 2005

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    From Yahoo:

    Judge Clears Way for Border Fence By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press Writer
    Mon Dec 12,10:32 PM ET



    SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Monday lifted the final legal barrier to completing a border fence meant to thwart illegal immigrants in the southwestern corner of the U.S.

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    The project comprises 14 miles of additional fencing in San Diego. In September, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff waived all laws and legal challenges to building the final 3 1/2-mile leg through coastal wetlands to the Pacific Ocean.

    The Sierra Club and other environmental groups had argued that Chertoff lacked the authority to do what he did.

    But U.S. District Judge Larry Burns said Congress delegated such authority to Chertoff in June. He noted that the executive branch already had significant jurisdiction over national security and immigration.

    Cory Briggs, an attorney representing the environmental groups, said he was undecided whether to appeal.

    Litigation has stalled the project since it was approved by Congress in 1996. Last year, the California Coastal Commission refused to grant permits, saying damage to sensitive habitats outweighed security benefits.

    In a lawsuit in 2004, the Sierra Club said the project threatened the Tijuana River estuary, home to more than 370 migratory and native birds, six of them endangered.

    The proposal calls for adding two fences to an existing barrier made of Navy landing mats. A maintenance road would be built between the primary and secondary fences, along with lights, sensors and cameras.

    The 2006 Homeland Security budget includes $35 million to cover most of the work.

    The final leg of the fence would cross steep, rugged canyons including "Smuggler's Gulch," a maze of trails once overrun by illegal border crossers. The federal government launched a crackdown in the area in 1994, forcing migrants to cross in more remote areas.

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    So how many more miles to go? Get on with the program!
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    Quote Originally Posted by had_enuf
    So how many more miles to go? Get on with the program!
    Lou Dobbs said something about over 1,900 more miles to go.
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    Charles, that same article made the El Paso Times this morning. I saw it while I was eating my dinner. Good! If some more judges will fall in step and tell the environmentalists that protected borders have got to take precedence, maybe the entire border fenced could become a reality.

    It worries me that the gov't keeps selling, or trying to sell, acre after acre of ranchland in west TX for really cheap prices. If Mexican nationals should happen to buy that land and refuse to let a fence be built on it to give their relatives a safe haven for crossing, we are going to need those judges.

    The American ranchers on the border, from what I can gather, would gladly give up however many feet of land they have to give for a fence.
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    If they don't do something soon we'll be the endangered species then what will the environmentalists do
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    well, let's see. Will they stand on the border and cheer? I expect they just might. Besides, lizards can still get under the fence or climb over and birds can fly over. Bugs? well, who cares. LOL The point is, not much lives out here in the desert anyway so I can't figure out why they get so jacked out of shape anyway. In San Diego, they were fighting over the salt marshes, I think, they are disturbed more by fifty thousand illegals plowing through them every month than they would be by one permanent fence.
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    14 miles big hairy deal....if THEY wanted to STOP ILLEGAL immigration THEY could and THEY don't want to and nothing is going to change...sorry..it is all talk...no action....

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    As I said a couple of weeks ago the best way to get the Democrats to push for building a fence is to :

    Tell them we will hire illegal immigrants to build it.
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