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lauraanne_gilmanThe Bush administration is bulldozing environmental laws to build a controversial fence designed to block illegal immigrants from crossing the Mexican border. To force through its construction, the secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, waived 35 separate environmental protection laws last week using provisions of the Real ID Act of 2005. The act allows him to set aside laws that might interfere with the construction of physical barriers at US borders. (emphasis mine)
Segments of fence totalling 750 kilometres are to be completed this year and will pass through many sensitive environments. In southern Texas the fence will run along flood-control levees between 100 and 1500 metres from the Rio Grande, creating what critics call a "no-man's land" between fence and river.
This section of the fence will cut through rich wildlife reserves, including the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Alamo, the Sabal Palm Audubon Center and most of the Nature Conservancy's Lennox Foundation Southmost Preserve near Brownsville. Other wild areas are threatened in New Mexico, Arizona and California.
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I am not surprised. Nothing this so-called administration does any more surprises me. Angry? Oh fuck yes. Let's see, we're in the middle of a worldwide climate crisis (oh wait, Bush and crew says nothing's wrong), our bees and bats -- essential to our continued well-being as a species -- are dying, water sources are drying up, and They think that plowing under precviously protected resrouces to keep illegal immigrants is a win-position.
Anyone in the area feel like chaining yourself to a bulldozer/laying down in front of a backhoe? If you can't physically protest, now would be a good time to raise your voice and make an angry noise, remind someone in D.C. that they're supposed to be of the people, for the people, not of their paranoia and for their wallets.
Excuse me, I feel the need to wind-up a bitchslap they'll actually feel in the Yellow House....
(thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
windrose for the heads-up)
Segments of fence totalling 750 kilometres are to be completed this year and will pass through many sensitive environments. In southern Texas the fence will run along flood-control levees between 100 and 1500 metres from the Rio Grande, creating what critics call a "no-man's land" between fence and river.
This section of the fence will cut through rich wildlife reserves, including the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Alamo, the Sabal Palm Audubon Center and most of the Nature Conservancy's Lennox Foundation Southmost Preserve near Brownsville. Other wild areas are threatened in New Mexico, Arizona and California.
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I am not surprised. Nothing this so-called administration does any more surprises me. Angry? Oh fuck yes. Let's see, we're in the middle of a worldwide climate crisis (oh wait, Bush and crew says nothing's wrong), our bees and bats -- essential to our continued well-being as a species -- are dying, water sources are drying up, and They think that plowing under precviously protected resrouces to keep illegal immigrants is a win-position.
Anyone in the area feel like chaining yourself to a bulldozer/laying down in front of a backhoe? If you can't physically protest, now would be a good time to raise your voice and make an angry noise, remind someone in D.C. that they're supposed to be of the people, for the people, not of their paranoia and for their wallets.
Excuse me, I feel the need to wind-up a bitchslap they'll actually feel in the Yellow House....
(thanks to
windrose for the heads-up)
