Border fence upsets environmentalists (THAT's A GOOD THING IN MY BOOK)

KVOA.com ^ | Ed Tribble

[SandRat]

A group of people concerned for the environment toured the border near Sierra Vista to see the newly constructed border fence.

Among them was Congressman Raul Grijalva.

As they tour the border, one of their concerns is about wildlife which won't be able to get across the new fence.

"Anything larger than four inches wide will not be able to cross," says Matt Clark with Defenders of Wildlife.

Another concern is that illegal traffic will be forced into environmentally sensitive river beds.

"We're concerned about effects on hydrology. There's concern riverbeds may shift because of all these structures and increased sedimentation," Clark says.

"Right now we have a 'one fence fits all philosophy' coming from Washington DC. And unfortunately 'one fence fits all' doesn't fit in this terrain," Grijalva says.

Border Patrol says it has followed standard laws covering environmental assessments for all major projects like this one within the federal government.

"That environmental assessment found that there would be no significant environmental impact as a result of this construction project," says Border Patrol spokeswoman Dove Haber.

"In our attempts to make sure the watershed has the least impact possible, we've decided that we're going to work with different types of material," she says.

When it comes to national security and the environment it's all part of a balancing act.

"We've done as much as we can to try and deal with national security issues and mitigate any negative effects to the environment whenever possible," Haber says.

[Hunterite]

“I don’t know about anyone else, but I haven’t even seen any new pictures of the border fence. Does any have any ?”

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Globalists need cheap quasi-slave labor.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Nor the resources they’ll use here or the pollution they’ll produce.

I mean, doesn’t fewer illegals translate to less glowbull warming?