Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Judge Clears Way for Border Fence Construction, Environmental Groups Opposed

Fox News
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.
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.
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.

how much do you want to bet that they will do just like the Oregon prisons... spend millions of dollars for the prisons but forget to allocate money to run them.


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