Border Fence, Progress not GWB’s fault after all
This is the real holdup in getting the fences built. The PC mentality in congress.
Residents and property owners along the U.S.-Mexico border have complained about the construction of fencing. In South Texas, where opposition has been widespread, land owners refused to give the government access to property along the fence route.
The government has since sued more than 50 property owners in South Texas to gain access to the land.
Environmentalists have also complained about the fence because they say it puts already endangered species such as two types of wild cats - the ocelot and the jaguarundi - in even more danger of extinction. They say the fence would prevent them from swimming across the Rio Grande to mate.
Chertoff has said the fence is good for the environment because immigrants degrade the land with trash and human waste when they sneak illegally into the country.
Bush has not really had anything to do with the delays as is apparent now.
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:30 am
Is that the reason Arizona’s fence is being built at warp speed and Texas isn’t?
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
WHOA - we’ve discovered something that AINT Dubbya’s fault?
Whodda thunk it?