Posted on 01/22/2018 6:24:58 PM PST by markomalley
The Trump administration is waiving more than 30 environmental rules to accelerate the construction of President Trump's proposed border wall in New Mexico, forcing environmental groups to consider another round of lawsuits.
The Department of Homeland Security published a notice Monday that said the waiver was necessary to ensure the "expeditious construction of barriers" near the Santa Teresa Land Port of Entry.
"The Secretary of Homeland Security has determined, pursuant to law, that it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations and other legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads in the vicinity of the international land border of the United States," according to a notice published in the Federal Register.
The waiver included rules and requirements under several top federal environmental rules, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Clean Air Act, the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Noise Control Act.
The waiver would allow the administration to begin replacing vehicle barriers with bollard walls along a 20-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border west of El Paso, Texas, at the New Mexico land border port.
"The United States Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector is an area of high illegal entry," according to the Department of Homeland Security's notice, stating the need for the waiver. "The El Paso Sector therefore remains an area of high illegal entry for which there is an immediate need to construct border barriers and roads."
The Center for Biological Diversity, the first group to sue the Trump administration over the wall last year, said Monday that it is considering a new lawsuit to address this latest waiver.
“The Trump administration is stopping at nothing to ram through this destructive border wall,” said Brian Segee, a senior attorney for the group. “Trump’s divisive border wall is a humanitarian and environmental disaster, and it won’t do anything to stop illegal drug or human smuggling.”
The environmental group sued the administration last year for a previous waiver of conservation rules to build a portion on the wall near San Diego. A hearing on the case in the federal district court of San Diego occurs next month on Feb. 9. The group argued that the wall violates the endangered species law by cutting off species' migratory patterns and ignoring protected habitat.
"Beyond jeopardizing wildlife, endangered species and public lands, the U.S.-Mexico border wall is part of a larger strategy of ongoing border militarization that damages human rights, civil liberties, native lands, local businesses and international relations," the group said.
The democrats want amnesty to build another brown underclass that overwhelmingly votes for them. DACA, chain migration, etc. is all about democrat votes. And they CANNOT allow a wall that will cut off their steady stream of voters.
The import of illegal voters is just a benefit of the Socialist Democrats’ main objective..... Transformation of America. They will never cease their war on the Euro-centric foundation of this great experiment.
The import of illegal voters is just a benefit of the Socialist Democrats’ main objective..... Transformation of America. They will never cease their war on the Euro-centric foundation of this great experiment.
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Your head is up Schumer’s butt.
I would love it if Fish & Game would open a Liberal season, early November desired.
Then I was thinking there's so many of them perhaps treating them like feral hogs might be better. I'm sure they would flock to bait stations labeled 'Free Money'.
so lets just give up and let all immigrants into our country and give them our jobs. You say it is hopeless so lets just open the borders and quit enforcement. it is just a waste of time.
I don't think they were promised a vote on a clean DACA bill. Just a DACA bill.
The Dims were not even promised that the House would vote on a DACA bill.
no the SENATE!! we gutted the wall in the SENATE with McConnells sell out. That is the filabuster!! The House is easy to pass daca. All 190 dems will support and 30 rino republicrats. IT IS OVER!!No wall. No leverage left— nothing!! Schumer pulled his offer of funds for the wall TODAY . It is over. WE got butchered.
Well you are are just wrong . They were promised a clean Daca vote in the Senate if they would “please” open the government by Mitch McConnell. LOOK IT UP!!
It will easily pass the house!! No problem passing the house. 190 democrats and 30 republicrate joined by paul ryan. It will happen so fast on february 9th — your head will spin. We gave up the leverage link with daca to get the WALL. etc. Now we have ZIP!!
I did look it up.
There is a totally different bill in the House which will have to be reconciled with the Senate bill. Don’t give up the ship until it has sunk.
And it is able to nullify actual Laws? Does not seem likely.
Nice to hear from the Never Happy brigade.
There is no doubt that the Wall is going to be built. Actually it already is.
Have you been asleep for the last three months?
They need green cards to legally work in this country.
The House will not override the Trump veto.
Amendments to the DACA bill are allowed and will prevent it from being passed.
Amendments will be defeated bad!! So we face a TRUMP veto on something that should never have been done — which was the sell out of the wall. This makes me furious.
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