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More New Border Wall Construction Angers The Usual Suspects
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| 05/15/2019
| Jazz Shaw
Posted on 05/15/2019 1:51:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The government is getting started on another 100 miles of new border wall/barrier construction, primarily in Arizona and California this month. It’s mostly being funded through the Department of Defense budget since the Democrats in the House still don’t care to discuss the matter. A couple of these stretches of the border are going through some areas that have liberals even more upset than usual. These include a national monument and a wildlife refuge. (Associated Press)
The U.S. government plans on replacing barriers through 100 miles (161 kilometers) of the southern border in California and Arizona, including through a national monument and a wildlife refuge, according to documents and environmental advocates.
The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday again waived environmental and dozens of other laws to build more barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Funding will come from the Defense Department following the emergency declaration that President Donald Trump signed this year after Congress refused to approve the amount of border wall funding he requested.
It appears that declaring an emergency really does get some things moving after all, I guess. The first thing to know here is that most of the construction isn’t technically “new” border wall. Particularly in Arizona, they’re replacing long stretches of “waist-high fencing” that was only designed to stop vehicles from driving through. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do much to stop anyone crossing on foot unless they’re in a wheelchair. The new barrier will consist of a low concrete wall topped with steel bollards or slats rising up to heights from 18 to 30 feet. That should prove a bit more restrictive to pedestrian traffic.
The environmental waivers issued for the construction seem to be what really have activists up in arms. Construction is set to begin along the edge of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. While environmentalists are protesting this move, the linked report admits that there was so much drug traffic coming over the border in that region that parts of it had to be closed to the public for several years.
And of course, we already dealt with the issues of border wall construction at the National Butterfly Center in Texas. One can sympathize with the nature lovers there because it might disrupt their migratory patterns in some fashion. Just imagine it. If only butterflies had some way to lift themselves ten or fifteen feet in the air to get over the wall…
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: borderwall; illegals; immigration; nevertrumpers
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posted on
05/15/2019 1:53:54 PM PDT
by
deport
To: SeekAndFind
There are more than a few cartel-corrupted border landowners with border. And then a few who have pro-Mexican sympathies.
The border isn’t a good guy/bad buy border.
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posted on
05/15/2019 1:54:10 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/15/2019 1:55:07 PM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: SeekAndFind
dat's my djtJUST F'N DO IT !!
To: SeekAndFind
There should be troops there until and while the wall is constructed.
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posted on
05/15/2019 2:05:44 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
To: SeekAndFind
More New Border Wall Construction Angers The Usual SuspectsJust a side benefit but a very nice one!
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posted on
05/15/2019 2:08:35 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: SeekAndFind
Gotta get started to get finished!
GO PRESIDENT TRUMP GO
all the way to Completion!
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posted on
05/15/2019 2:16:57 PM PDT
by
EnglishOnly
(eWFight all out to win OR get out now. .)
To: SeekAndFind
God Bless President Trump - he keeps fighting the little democrat bastards ...
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posted on
05/15/2019 2:18:13 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
("Elites reflexively exempt themselves from the ravages of their own policies." - nathanbedford)
To: SeekAndFind
this makes me laugh. Like the bcycle addicts who even after losing court battles to stop proposed highway known about for many decades still choose to bike through consruction area and expect motorists to not honk or have to cut close around them because there is no longer bike lane or edge of road for them. fools! just like these organ pipe protestors. you lost legally. stick a fork in yourself, you’re done.
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posted on
05/15/2019 2:21:11 PM PDT
by
b4me
(God Bless the USA)
To: deport
“And of course, we already dealt with the issues of border wall construction at the National Butterfly Center in Texas. One can sympathize with the nature lovers there because it might disrupt their migratory patterns in some fashion. Just imagine it. If only butterflies had some way to lift themselves ten or fifteen feet in the air to get over the wall
”
Or fly through the slats.
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posted on
05/15/2019 2:33:10 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Only a Replacement Wall? Ann Coulter is deeply saddened.)
To: SeekAndFind
anyone ‘upset’ over the wall going through a national monument should take a road trip and see for themselves the damage that’s already been caused by ‘migrants’ and cartels using that same area as a byway. And stop by the Joshua Tree Park and talk to the rangers about the 200-some y.o. mesquite tree that was stripped of most of its branches for firewood by ‘migrants’ just passing thru. Illegals, coyotes (here and there) and cartels don’t understand, or give a hotdamn, about national monuments any more than they care about borders, or the flora and fauna populations Americans have set aside for the enjoyment of generations. To them, it’s just food and firewood on vacant land there for the taking.
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posted on
05/15/2019 2:37:53 PM PDT
by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/15/2019 2:56:28 PM PDT
by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
To: SeekAndFind
Use the vast military resources to defend our border now...
To: SeekAndFind
I surmise this will be a given so I’m curious how Trump will respond when the drug cartels start blowing holes in the newly constructed wall, thus undeterred in their continual committing of crimes against this country.
To: blueplum
Yep things change over the millenniums for sure. Heck in
those terms Europeans, etc haven’t been here but some 1.5
millenniums when in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Change occurs during our short term on this Earth so we
have to learn to make of it the best we can in our short time
here. Hopefully we can leave it some better for those following.
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posted on
05/15/2019 3:23:02 PM PDT
by
deport
To: SeekAndFind
But no concern whatsoever over millions of people tromping through the area, leaving all sorts of trash and disrupting wildlife migration patterns.
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posted on
05/15/2019 4:11:59 PM PDT
by
girlangler
(Fish Fear Me)
To: SeekAndFind
We had a local from my town in Michigan who was a National Park Ranger in Organ Pipe National Monument.
About 15 years ago he was assisting the Border Patrol when they were arresting some illegals coming through the Monument.
An Illegal shot him in the chest at point blank range, killing him. A BP agent was standing next to him.
So, Organ Pipe has been a problem for a long time.
There were hundreds of police cars from all over the nation at his funeral....
To: SeekAndFind
This does not appear the same height as other fences on the border
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posted on
05/15/2019 5:30:13 PM PDT
by
keving
(We the government)
To: Reno89519
There should be troops there until and while the wall is constructed. Absolutely!
At this point in time no real action to stop this invasion has been attempted... Lots of talk... Lots of promises... No action!
The wall is important in the long term but is not a solution for stopping the continuing invasion by millions of these diseased invading scum...
IMHO, if the tide is not turned this year and the invaders, already in the country, expelled, there can not be any solution in the ballot box to saving what's left of the Nation...
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posted on
05/15/2019 9:12:44 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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