Posted on 02/16/2009 7:38:03 PM PST by AuntB
Heavily armed outlaws are threatening national parks and other public lands along the Mexican border, where terrain and environmental concerns limit the range of U.S. Border Patrol agents and are complicating efforts to build a barrier ordered by Congress.
The Department of Homeland Security has allocated about $50 million to counter the ecological impact on land managed by the Interior Department and other government agencies.
But environmentalists, energized by the Democratic leadership of Congress and the White House, are pushing for additional conservation measures that Border Patrol agents fear will make it easier for Mexican gangs to operate.
Numerous Border Patrol agents interviewed by The Washington Times said drug smugglers and human traffickers are using ecologically diverse sanctuaries to evade law enforcement officials, whose access is limited in some areas to foot patrols and horseback.
Zack Taylor, a retired agent and supervisor who spent 26 years patrolling the Texas and Arizona border, said the creation of federally protected wilderness areas threatens to keep "the agency in a reactionary mode rather than proactively tackling the increasing dangers on the border."
"The cartels want to keep their access to the north and welcome the creation of new wilderness areas that are easier to traverse for them than the ones they are already using," Mr. Taylor said.
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The envirofreaks are going to be the death of all of us.
And the envirofreaks don’t like horses in the wilderness either.
Physically take the evironmentalists to the preserves and let them see th trashing of our border.
Illegal immigrants could careless about the environment.
My guess is the environmentalists would strangely overlook this trashyu scum.
Maybe we can get Green Peace to patrol the border. If nothing else, they can pick up trash.
I guess the greenies haven’t seen the mountains of trash left in (what’s left of) these ‘wildlife areas’ ? More like dumps-in-the-desert now.
“Numerous Border Patrol agents interviewed by The Washington Times said drug smugglers and human traffickers are using ecologically diverse sanctuaries to evade law enforcement officials, whose access is limited in some areas to foot patrols and horseback.”
Obamaloon and his worshipers are socializing our country as fast as they can!
Wake Up America!
Molon Labe!
Ping!
The Greenies strangely ignore this trashing of America’s SouthWest while the EPA is far more interested in properties it can steal proving mutant critters reside on them.
As usual, real Americans having a real sense of responsibility for their country go behind the scenes of these groups’ collective failures can be found every weekend bagging and hauling the trash the illegals strew with no press or “Thank You” at all.
That there is so much illegal traffic compared to the volunteers is not the fault of our citizens. That our citizens can’t defend our nation without being prosecuted is the fault of our government.
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